Her new film stars Maisy Stella as an 18-year-old who comes face to face with her older self — played by Aubrey Plaza

Megan Park knows it’s hard to create a perfect coming-of-age film—from both in front of and behind the camera. The Canadian filmmaker, 38, was among the ensemble on the classic ABC Family teen soap The Secret Life of the American Teenager for over 100 episodes,

"The Fallout" director Megan Park began working on her second feature with a vague concept and bold title: "My Old Ass." "The title was one of the first things that I came up with," Park says of the film,

That’s the charm and superficiality of writer-director Megan Park’s comedy, a frisky festival favorite (it premiered at Sundance earlier this year) that’s less than the sum of its parts but in a way you may not mind. Perhaps the worst thing that can be said is the movie represents a criminal underuse of Aubrey Plaza.

Writer-director Megan Park ’s upcoming film, My Old Ass, is something of a departure from her first feature The Fallout — the 2021 Jenna Ortega starrer that followed the survivors of a school shooting—although both films expertly center on a teenage point of view.

The Amazon MGM Studios film follows Elliott (Maisy Stella) who is visited by her older self (Aubrey Plaza) during a mushroom trip

SPOILERS are ahead for My Old Ass. My Old Ass is one of those 2024 movies that just completely snuck up on me and simply won my heart. Sure, I knew I had to see another comedy starring Aubrey Plaza, but it’s one of the best coming-of-age concepts I’ve seen in years.