Age and Functional Ability: A Case Study

In Cynthia Scott's 1991 film, Strangers in Good Company, seven long-lived Canadian women on a sightseeing trip must draw upon all of their resources to survive when their bus breaks down in an unpopulated rural area (Brussat and Brussat 1). The women range in background from a sturdy, hard-working Mohawk Indian matriarch, to an elegant, beautiful lesbian, and a 92-year-old great-grandmother. Scavenging for food and finding shelter in an abandoned farmhouse, the women "make the best of bad situation by sharing the stories of their lives and talking about family, marriage, love, work, religion, and death" (Brussat and Brussat 1).

Each of the characters represents a specif

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