Writer-director Andrew Cohn makes his narrative debut with this prescient and wise feature. Unlike Stan, he desperately seeks a way out in order to fulfill his true potential as a columnist. Jevon clearly has potential, but oddly like Stan he has been put in a box by society.
Asked how much he made when he started, Stan replies $3.10 an hour and now up to $13, a wage that horrifies Jevon who tries to convince him he has been wasting his life being taken advantage of by corporate heads making millions off the back of people like Stan.
The crux of the film revolves around the shaky relationship between the pair as Stan tries to teach him the ropes of the place, still taking pride in making those sandwiches, while Jevon instantly labels this work for what it is - though it is the only kind he can get to help pay the bills for his girlfriend, Sydney (Birgundi Baker), and their young son. Over the course of a final weekend he must train his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), an aspiring writer just out on probation after serving time in county jail for some minor offenses made more major simply because he is a young Black man. He lives with roommates in a flop house himself, doesn’t drive but has to learn, and basically peaked in high school.
This one is no different, a tiny gem of a drama dealing a lifelong Albion, MI working stiff named Stanley (Richard Jenkins) giving up the only job he ever had, minding the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken & Fish, a gig he has been doing since 1971, and finally deciding to retire and tend to his dementia-stricken mother in Sarasota, FL.
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