Not the usual dying wish

In “One Last Thing

Sixteen-year-old Dylan Jamieson (Michael Angarano) lives with his widowed mother, Karen (Cynthia Nixon), in an industrial Pennsylvania town. In the last stages of brain cancer, he is granted a publicity stunt by a charity called “United Wish Givers” and elects to spend a weekend trawling for trout with NFL stud Jason O’Malley (Johnny Messner). Sharing his medical pot with his best friends, Ricky (Matt Bush) and Slap (Gideon Glick), before the press conference, Dylan is presented with the challenge of asking for the thing he really wants and rises to the occasion.

Meanwhile, in New York, Nikki Sinclair (Sunny Mabrey) is teetering on the apex of the fashion world, porn star name notwithstanding, just one drink away from falling off. When the item makes the news, Nikki’s manager, Arlene (Gina Gershon), seizes the damage-control opportunity and whisks her off to Pennsylvania for a photo op, leaving Dylan in the dust the minute the snap is shot.

Luckily for Dylan, there’s more to Nikki than meets the eye – namely, a crushing load of self-destructive guilt over a lost love. O’Malley turns out to be a hero after all. Over the objections of Dylan’s bereft mother, the football player supplies the boys with a hotel room in New York, an envelope full of cash and his blessing, and off to the supermodel’s house the kids go.

An odd, hard-to-figure little movie, “One Last Thing

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`One Last Thing’

MPAA rating: Unrated. Mild sexual references, drug use.

A Magnolia Pictures release. Director Alex Steyermark. Screenplay Barry Stringfellow. Producers Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot, Susan A. Stover. Director of photography Christopher Norr. Editor Michael Berenbaum. Music by Anton Sanko. Running time: 1 hour, 33 minutes.

Exclusively at Laemmle’s Fairfax Cinemas, 7907 Beverly Blvd. (at Fairfax Avenue), (323) 655-4010.