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Left: Frances McDormand stars in Nomadland (Hulu); right: Shane Paul McGhie and Richard Jenkins star in The Last Shift (Sony Pictures Releasing).
“Nomadland” was a big winner at an Oscars that hardly anyone watched, with Chloé Zhao winning Best Director, Frances McDormand taking home Best Actress, and the film claiming Best Picture. Contrary to what the Academy thinks of the film, I believe is one of worst movies I’ve ever watched (which is saying something). I also believe that “The Last Shift” is a much better if lesser-known film, with a similar theme of a bad economy turning people’s lives upside down.
Race, class and burgers ⦠Shane Paul McGhie, left, and Richard Jenkins in The Last Shift.
In writer-director Andrew Cohnâs deceptively modest drama The Last Shift, fast-food worker Stanley (Richard Jenkins) is finally calling it quits. He has worked the graveyard shift at Oscarâs Chicken and Fish for 38 years, but now heâs moving from Michigan to Florida to take care of his elderly mother; grease be gone.
Heâs proud of his tenure, slickly handling the drunks and the teens who ridicule him, rarely putting a foot wrong. But when heâs forced to train his replacement, the opinionated twentysomething Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), Stanley starts to reconsider his lifeâs work and whatever meaning he might have attached to it. Jevon is dismissive of the job, forced into it while on probation after defacing a federal monument, and aiming to return to his love of writing when his circumstances allow. Jevon is smart but difficult, failin
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Monday is Stanley s (Richard Jenkins) last shift at a fast food restaurant. It ll be 38 years to the day. First he has to train his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), who has no experience, and Stanley worries that he isn t up for the task. However, despite their differences, the two men discover they have much in common.
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The Last Shift is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. 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. 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. These two who share little in common are brought together through circumstance. Stanley, a high school dropout who has watched life pass by his drive-through window, proudly details the nuances of the job. While Jevon, a columnist who’s too smart to be flipping patties, contends their labor is being exploited. A flicker of camaraderie sparks during the long overnight hours in a quiet kitchen.