The Last Black Man in San Francisco(2019)

A24

R
Rated R for language, brief nudity and drug use
2h 1m
- Drama

Release Date: Jun 7, 2019 | Limited

A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.

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Releases

Original Release | Jun 7, 2019

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$235,272
Total US & Canada:
$4,515,719
Total International
$122,111
Total Worldwide:
$4,637,830

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Director & Top Cast

Joe Talbot
Director

Rob Morgan
James Sr.

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Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

Jimmie Fails IV, a black man, is a third generation San Franciscan. Having been pushed out by circumstances like many others, Jimmie, who works a low paying job as a nurse in a seniors' care facility, returned to San Francisco three years ago and has been living in his best friend Montgomery Allen's house that he shares with his blind grandfather, Jimmie who sleeps on the floor in Mont's already cramped bedroom. Despite the house, Mont's situation is not much better than Jimmie's, Mont who works at a supermarket fish counter while he sketches and writes a play on the side. Other black people around him who are showing their anger in also being disenfranchised from San Francisco life are the soapbox preacher who Jimmie and Mont often watch as they wait for the bus, and a group of young black men who hang outside of Mont's house. All of Jimmie's family, whom he rarely sees, are also disenfranchised from that San Francisco life in one way or another: his estranged father lives in an SRO (Single Room Occupancy); his mother and her new husband long moved to Los Angeles; and his paternal Auntie Wanda has been pushed out to the suburbs. Jimmie has long wanted to reclaim what he sees as his place in San Francisco, which to him means the house he grew up in and which his same named paternal grandfather built in the post-war era in a style indicative to the area a century earlier. The problems are that his father lost the house long ago, the neighborhood has since been gentrified from the immigrant neighborhood it once was, increasing the value of the house to the several millions, and a white couple currently lives there, there being no indication that they are either planning on leaving or selling even if Jimmie could afford it. Regardless, Jimmie, with Mont by his side, has and continues to take steps to reclaim the house as his to his standards. — Huggo