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Twenty Last Summers

When a longtime group of friends in their fifties and sixties jokingly ask themselves, “What if we only had twenty summers left?”, the question unexpectedly detonates their comfortable routines, sending each of them into a spiral of hilarious missteps, overdue confrontations, and clumsy attempts at self-reinvention.

Twenty Last Summers follows a tight-knit circle of lifelong friends who suddenly find themselves reckoning—often awkwardly and comically—with the fact that time isn’t infinite. What begins as a casual conversation becomes a catalyst for a series of absurd, heartfelt, and occasionally disastrous personal quests.

Some try to reignite long-neglected passions with misguided gusto; others stumble through mending relationships they’ve avoided for years; and a few pursue long-suppressed desires with varying degrees of dignity and chaos. Amid camping trips gone wrong, misguided “bucket list” attempts, and the sort of brutally honest conversations only old friends can survive, the group discovers that reinvention at any age is messy, ridiculous, and unexpectedly joyful.

While the story explores themes of aging, regret, and emotional courage, it remains a comedy first—a celebration of imperfect people trying (and often failing) to do better. Rather than laughing at the characters, the humor invites the audience to laugh with them as they navigate the beautifully absurd reality of being human.

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Format:
Screenplay
Starring Roles For:
Laura Linney
Kathryn Hahn
Rosemarie DeWitt
In the Vein Of:
The Big Chill
Enough Said
Friends with Money
Posted:
12/17/2025
Updated:
12/18/2025
Author Bio:
Naomi Lisner is an actor, writer, and occasional director who refuses to age out, quiet down, or become “sensible.” She creates stories with heart, bite, and the kind of humour that makes people snort-laugh in public and then pretend they didn’t. After years in front of the camera, she began writing, directing, and painting — not because she needed more careers, but because her creativity has the self-discipline of a drunk flamingo and cannot be contained.

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London Independent (First Place, London Greek FF active) [2022]
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