The Last Rites of Joe May Directed by Joe Maggio

“A career performance! Farina shows great depth and vulnerability.” Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times

Short-money hustler Joe May (Dennis Farina, Snatch, Law & Order) always believed he had a glorious future ahead of him, despite all evidence to the contrary. Released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia, Joe is 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 Chicago neighborhood, 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 named Jenny and her eight-year-old daughter.

Even as Joe doggedly pursues his comeback, he finds the odds stacked against him. So when things turn ugly between Jenny and her boyfriend—a crooked detective with a penchant for domestic violence—Joe is determined to take a stand for his unlikely new family, and perhaps take one last shot at redefining his legacy.