

Sundance Unveils 2023 Online Platform, Ticketing Details

A flicker of camaraderie sparks during the long overnight hours in a quiet kitchen.” While Jevon, a columnist who’s too smart to be flipping patties, contends their labor is being exploited. Stanley, a high school dropout who has watched life pass by his drive-through window, proudly details the nuances of the job. These two who share little in common are brought together through circumstance. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative politics keep landing him in trouble.

Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an aging fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. Here’s the synopsis: “‘The Last Shift’ is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. IndieWire shares the exclusive first trailer. A minor-key seriocomedy set in the world of fast food work and led by Richard Jenkins as an aging worker and Shane Paul McGhie as his young protege, “The Last Shift” also stars Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Ed O’Neill. While the number of movies available in wide release right now is limited, one new film hitting about 800 theaters on September 25 from Sony is “ The Last Shift,” documentary-turned-narrative-feature director Andrew Cohn’s Sundance favorite.
