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Genres: Drama, Music
Description: Jack Willits is THE LAST HOT LICK, a 69 year old musician on a never-ending tour, desperate to recapture the fame of his youth. When he meets a mysterious woman, Jack believes her beautiful voice is the key to his success and doesn t see that she might be too good to be true.
Director: Mahalia Cohen
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The Last Hot Lick In the mid-2010s, the Pacific Northwest became a playground for director Mahalia Cohen and musicians Jaime Leopold and Jennifer Smieja, who traveled everywhere from Portland to the Painted Hills to make this exquisite emotional odyssey. Leopold a veteran of the jazz and rock band Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks plays Jack Willits, a guitarist whose crumbling career reignites when he teams with Bobby (Smieja), a woman whose passion for singing is matched only by her hunger for heroin. As they traverse the region, Cohen tells a tale of rising and falling artistic fortunes without indulging in the