Yaşlı adamı oynayan Spencer Tracy, günler sonra karşısına çıkan devasa bir kılıç balığını yakalamaya çalışır. Gençlerin dahi altından kalkamayacağı insanüstü bir mücadele verir. Bu zorlu mücadelede balığa saygı da duymaya başlar.

Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.

The central character is an old fisherman named Santiago, who has not caught a fish for 84 days. Santiago takes his skiff far out into the deep waters of the Gulf Stream, where he soon hooks a giant marlin. With all his great experience and strength, he struggles with the fish for three days, admiring its strength, dignity, and faithfulness to its identity; its destiny is as true as Santiago’s as a fisherman. He finally reels the marlin in and lashes it to his boat. However, Santiago’s exhausting effort goes for naught. Sharks are drawn to the tethered marlin, and, although Santiago manages to kill a few, the sharks eat the fish, leaving behind only its skeleton.

Ernest Hemingway'in aynı adlı eserinden uyarlama Aleksandr Petrov'un yönettiği 1999 yapımı animasyon Yaşlı Adam ve Deniz . Günlerdir tek bir balık bile tutamayan Santiago yanına yardımcısı Manolin'i almadan denize balık tutmaya gider. Santiago geçmişte başarılar elde etmiş, kendinden çokça söz ettirmiş bir adamdır. Bu yüzden herhangi bir yenilgiyi kabul etmeye hazır değildir. Son Smeshnogo Cheloveka (Gülünç Bir Adamın Rüyası) adlı eseriyle tanıdığımız yönetmenin bu animasyonu da izlemeye değerdir.

This beautiful documentary is a character study of an old man named Norman Hayes Jagamarra who gave up droving and came to Coober Pedy decades ago to work as an opal-miner.

For 70-year-old Kheng, terminal illness is a thundercloud that throws his quiet everyday life into shadow. Fearful of what is to come, the old man fades, withdrawing into himself as the threat of death looms. His daughter, Lin, does her best to care for him but struggles with also being a newly single-parent to 19-year-old Ben, who is reeling from his parents’ divorce as well. One night, Kheng encounters Ben’s EDM (Electronic Dance Music) playlist and is inexplicably hooked. To everyone’s surprise, the music brings Kheng to life and introduces a world where death sentences are drowned out by deafening beats. The music gradually brings the family together, revealing unlikely lessons about how to love, live, and be happy, in the strange and wonderful rave that is life.

An old man travels to the city in search of a book. After a long journey, he returns to his town empty-handed and resumes his strange routine.