YOUR OWN TRUE SELF visits residents at the all male Duplex nursing home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts and discovers a vibrant community that dispels many misconceptions about the aging.

David Greenberger, editor of THE DUPLEX PLANET, asks a series of mundane, humorous, or surprising questions, each purposefully avoiding oral history or politics. Through their answers, the interviewees reveal their individual personalities, and each his unique wit, charm, patience, and - sometimes - outrage.

Ultimately, YOUR OWN TRUE SELF provides a gentle and warm challenge to our cultural fear of aging.

"Illustrates effectively and unobtrusively how the elderly often inhabit rich interior worlds of their own; that they are as happy or sad, angry or accepting, coherent of inarticulate as any other sector of society - and that 'the elderly,' in fact, cannot be treated as a statistical or psychological whole. Charming and revealing."—Video Rating Guide for Libraries

"Sometimes the best irony is when the joke is on oneself... The filmmakers seem to be making fun of residents but, as it spends more time with its subjects, the film reveals them as characters rather than caricatures. It ends with a resident who, after a medley of Nat King Cole and Mills Brothers tunes, asks, 'Can we play it back? It'd be like a movie about your own true self? That would be nice!' And it is."—Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix