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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.
Check out the new DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming shows (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Acorn TV, Sundance Now and Disney+) coming out this week, including
Honest Thief starring Liam Neeson.
~Alexandra Heilbron
Honest Thief – Tom Dolan (Liam Neeson), a former demolitions expert, has over $9 million in cash from robbing banks. When he meets a woman, Annie (Kate Walsh), he doesn’t want to lie to her about his past so he calls the FBI and tells them he’ll hand over the cash in exchange for a reduced sentence. However, the agents who arrive on the scene decide to keep the money for themselves. Just as they’re holding a gun to Tom’s head, a senior FBI agent shows up and they kill him. Knowing the murder will be blamed on him, Tom goes on the run but decides to hunt down the agents to force them to confess to the murder and clear his name. Available December 29 on DVD/Blu-ray/Digital/VOD.