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An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteuse and awakens from a lifetime of loneliness and inconsequence.
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- Drama, Music
- Marc Lazard
- 2000-06-19
An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteuse and awakens from a lifetime of loneliness and inconsequence.
- (213)
- William Sanderson
- Marc Lazard
When a charming ukulele player (William Sanderson) takes a job as a therapist in a nursing home, he becomes friends with a retired jazz singer (Marla Gibbs).
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- Mark Lazard
- Drama
- William Sanderson
Jun 26, 2000 · The legendary jazz music scene of Los Angeles’ Central Avenue during the 1930s and ’40s is paid fond tribute by director Marc Lazard’s “Stanley’s Gig.” It’s affable and well-cast yet otherwise...
Stanley (Bill Sanderson) manages a "breakthrough" at work with an old retired jazz singer, Eleanor Whitney (Marla Gibbs) who seems to want to forget her past, he befriends the elderly woman and finds where she once performed and attempts to set-up a gig for her to sing again.
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Stanley Myer is a so-so musician who harbors a big dream: to play his ukulele on a cruise line to Hawaii. In order to make ends meet in the meantime, he takes a job in a retirement home playing music for the residents.