ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME (TRR01)

An Award-Winning Film about Sexuality and Aging

Video or DVD

by Judith Keller,

producer and writer of And the Home of the Brave

"...challenges stereotypes most of us don't even know we have."

--Indiana University Centre on Aging

Rose Gordon, a 79-year-old woman in a nursing home, is discovered in the bed of a male resident. We see the relationship between Mrs. Gordon and Mr. Morris as warm, intimate and fulfilling, but threatened by the administration and staff of the home, Mrs. Gordon's family and the very architecture of the institution. The film explores the reactions of other people to a loving relationship between an aging pair and the pressures that are brought to end its "unseemliness."         

 

Rose by Any Other Name is a trigger film about the older person's search for closeness, privacy and love. It fills the need for a sensitive, non-clinical, educational film that portrays the experiences of older people living in long-term care facilities. Attitudes towards the elderly and their sexual needs are explored in a tactful and delicate manner, using a dramatic story rather than a documentary approach. The film is designed to help older people and their families and those with policy-making responsibilities develop informed judgments about lifelong needs for affection, privacy and sexuality.         

  Produced by Tricepts Productions
   Length: 15 minutes
   Price: Video or DVD $165.00