The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

Directed by

Joe Talbot

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 366 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to reclaim the Victorian house his grandfather built in a rapidly changing San Francisco neighborhood. He and his best friend confront loss, gentrification, and what it means to call a place home.

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What happens

The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a 2019 American drama film directed and produced by Joe Talbot in his directorial debut. He wrote the screenplay with Rob Richert and the story with Jimmie Fails, on whose life it is partly based. It stars Fails, Jonathan Majors, Tichina Arnold, Rob Morgan, Mike Epps, Finn Wittrock, and Danny Glover. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019, where it won awards for Best Directing and a Special Jury Prize for Creative Collaboration. It was released in the United States on June 7, 2019, by A24. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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