* Washington State Premiere! *

As he approaches 70, Jack Willits, a rambling troubadour and real-life original member of the Americana group, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, has not given up his dreams of glory while he grinds it out on the road from gig to gig. His routine is upended when he picks up a nomadic woman on the side of the road, and though her luminous voice promises success, her secretive nature portends an emotional upheaval that Jack is not prepared for.

Writer/director Mahalia Cohen looks upon people, landscapes, even objects with a purifying, almost ethnographic sensitivity, and the lead performances are magnificent in ways that transcend mere technique. The Last Hot Lick is a film of elegant simplicity.