Delco Native's Film 'Last Call' About Upper Darby Releases Friday

UPPER DARBY, PA — The Philadelphia area has been a hot bed for film production over the past several years. And another Philly-area film is set to premier Friday with a focus on Delaware County.

"Last Call" will be released Friday in theaters and video on demand.

The film was cowritten by Upper Darby native Greg Lingo, who also serves as an executive producer, and Paolo Pilladi, a Philadelphia native who also directed the film.

Set in the fictional "Darby Heights," the film stars Jeremy Piven who plays Mick, a character loosely based on Lingo, and Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern.

Also starring in the film are Cheri Oteri of Saturday Night Live fame and comedian and actor Jamie Kennedy, both of whom are Upper Darby natives.

Check out a description from IFC Films below:

A local success story and real estate developer, Mick (Jeremy Piven), returns home to his offbeat blue collar Irish neighborhood in the shadows of Philadelphia for a funeral and is obligated to stay to ensure his parents’ ailing family business gets back on course. Amidst all of this, he grows closer to his childhood crush (Taryn Manning) who is also back in town, while enduring the constant ridicule from his old hometown crew. As Mick begins to reconnect with the neighborhood he grew up in, he finds himself at a crossroads when forced to either raze or resurrect the family bar.

Lingo told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the story for "Last Call," originally titled "Crabs In A Bucket," came from he and friends recalling memories from Upper Darby.

"It started out not as a quest to do a movie," he told the outlet. "It was, let’s write all these things down. And then we started putting it into a movie script format."