Elsa & Fred

Mar 7, 2014

1h 37m

★ 6.0

It's Never Too Late.

Overview

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa, who convinces him it's never too late to keep enjoying life. Although he seemed resigned to a miserable bedridden existence, Fred embraces Elsa's youthful enthusiasm as she introduces him to the path of life and entertains him with outlandish stories about her past life. But when he discovers Elsa's terminally ill, Fred decides to accompany her on the trip of her dreams to the eternal city of Rome to help her fulfil a lifelong ambition.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Riverside Entertainment Group

Rio Negro

Media House Capital

Cuatro Plus Films

Defiant Pictures

Creative Andina

Lotus Entertainment

Sisung Film Finance

Elsa & Fred Trailers

Cast

Elsa

Shirley MacLaine

Fred

Christopher Plummer

Lydia

Marcia Gay Harden

Armande

Wendell Pierce

Michael

Jared Gilman

Laverne

Erika Alexander

Jack

Chris Noth

Raymond

Scott Bakula

John

George Segal

Alec

Reg Rogers

Max

James Brolin

Taxi Cab Driver

Sam Medina

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