2009 Solstice Film Festival “The Last Passport” is a movie about an old man that sits in a passport office, dispensing sound homespun advice to what apparently are disgruntled
patrons tired of waiting in line, first to have their picture taken and then to get their passport. Now, getting a passport is not that tough, so that
should have been my first clue that all is not as it seems. In fact, at the risk of giving away too much, nothing is as it seems, and the novie bears watching closely.
The old man is played spectacularly by Jimmy Hager, who was allowed to use many of his own lines. This turns out to have some interestng results.
I shoulp point out that this film is a product Luckyyoufilms.com, directed by Kent Smith and David Temple. They did this on a $5,000 budget and completed filming in 30 days.
The promotional material for the movie says that the movie is about how we discard our elderly citizens. You could look at the movie that way, but I didn’t. I felt I was on to Jimmy right away, and that he was spending his later years doing what he wanted to do. But perhaps I waas swayed by his stunning performance(he did receive the Best Actor award for the Festival). The other charactres in this film were well played and cast as well, and I wasthoroughly impressed by the whole enterprise. If you’re an action buff, it’s not here. If you think you would like an extended, thought-provoking episode of The Twillight Zone, for example, then I think you’d like this, but it is a loot deeper.
Screenplay: A
Acting: A+
Relevance: A
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