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Not the OnionBox office hit films are four times more likely to star a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a new survey by Age Without Limits.
The anti-ageism campaign studied the 100 highest performing films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five starred an older woman, about 20 featured creatures who chat.
Meanwhile six starred a male actor called Chris – of which Chris Pratt accounted for half.
However, while two of the remaining Chris instances (Pine and Hemsworth) headlined big budget blockbusters, the sixth – Christian Friedel – was co-lead in an acclaimed arthouse film: Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2024). Friedel is known only to his friends as Chris.
The five films starring an older woman that made the top 100 chart in the UK over the three year period were Allelujah (2023), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023), Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023), The Substance (2024) and Freakier Friday (2025).
Honestly this article has kinda annoyed me.
Their data presentation is terrible, it doesn't say how many men over 60 "starred" in those same movies. I'm not saying their conclusion is wrong, just that with the information presented there's no way of knowing if it's true or not.
cinema has always featured younger people.
Just speculating here, but 60 year olds probably don't have a lot of epic adventures or sexy romances.
That terrible Indiana Jones film with the meerkats has ruined it for everyone else.
Stopped watching american cinema a while ago, culturally boycott the empire if you desperately need slop pirate it.
Wacky grandma movies are praxis
What's your favorite movie about a character played by a woman over 60? I'm trying to think of them. I'm also trying to figure out a good recent movie about a character played by a guy named Chris, because the blockbuster slop is rarely anything but slop.
I can only remember Everything Everywhere All at Once with Michelle Yeoh
I was going to say Jurassic Park, but it turns out the T-rex was only 5 at the time.
Best I can come up with is Mona Marshall being in a Bunch of Digimon and South Park movies.
Also Masako Nozawa has been in all the dragon ball movies.
