Last Call

Last Call (2020)

Before there were rock stars, there was Dylan.

Last Call is a fictional account of the final days of exuberant and notorious Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as he sets out on a final poetry tour of New York. Desperate for money and with a wife and three children dependent on him, Thomas accepts a job believing it is beneath him. He spends his time in the city drinking at the White Horse Tavern and becoming increasingly ill between poetry readings. Everything comes to a head when he goes on a bender so extreme he cannot perform the last lecture, makes a scene at the bar, and has his final drink while ruminating on life, death, and the concept of love.

Date of release
2020-11-25
TMDB
4.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Steven Bernstein

Casting

Interesting facts

Last Call is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Steven Bernstein. It is a surrealistic biopic, which recreates the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas through flashbacks during the famous drinking binge at the White Horse Tavern in New York City which ended fatally during the fall of 1953.

Production

The film was shot in 2014. On May 1, 2014, Rhys Ifans, John Malkovich and Diego Luna joined the cast. On May 29, 2014, Rodrigo Santoro joined the cast. Principal photography began on May 23, 2014, and ended on June 23, 2014. Post-production was completed in January 2020.

The film ran into financial difficulties during the last week of filming when extras and technicians were not paid for the work they had done when the production ran out of money. Though producers insisted the crew would be paid, in 2015, extras and crew signed an open letter to Pierre Lescure, the president of the Cannes Film Festival, asking them to ban Dominion from being screened at the festival until they were paid, while the producers argue…

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