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The Last Rites of Joe May

The Last Rites of Joe May

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 28, 2011

Runtime

1h 47m

Genres

Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

The Last Rites of Joe May

Production Companies

Last Rites of Joe May, The, Steppenwolf Films, Billy Goat Pictures, You've Faded Films, Incidental Films

Director

Joe Maggio

Description

Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. Returning to his old neighborhood in Chicago's 'Patch' district, he finds his car gone, all his worldly possessions pawned by his landlord, and the apartment he's lived in his entire adult life rented out to a single mother and her eight-year-old daughter.