The Geena Davis Institute’s report, The menopause gap in film: Writing a new narrative for women in midlife, investigates the degree to which top-grossing domestic films feature menopause, and how these narratives play out on the big screen. The analysis focused on 40-plus characters in films from 2009 to 2024, to provide a series of benchmarks for understanding the media environment as it was, and as it more currently stands. Beyond menopause, the report also considers broader aging narratives related to work, love, caregiving, health, and physical appearance, to reveal how aging more broadly is framed differently by gender, and how that may shape audience expectations about relevance, desirability, and personal fulfillment later in life.