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1 week agoHal Hartley Is Still Figuring It All Out Onscreen | Defector
A 58-year-old romantic-comedy director reevaluates life and seeks a perennial contribution by applying to be a graveyard groundskeeper.
Joe Fulton (Bill Sage), a filmmaker referred to as "the quiet and unassuming elder statesman of American romantic comedies," decides to prepare his last will and testament while also jockeying for a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. The timing of his estate planning combined with the drastic professional pivot concerns some of the people in Joe's life, most of whom assume that he's near death.