Veteran German character actor Udo Kier has appeared in over 200 films, from Breaking The Waves to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. He’s worked with eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone from Martin Scorsese to Rainer Fassbinder. He’s played eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone from the Pope to Hitler. He has the kind of familiar face that will possess’own’nurse you reaching in/with regard to’concerning’regarding your IMDb app, a true, “Oh, that guy!” chameleon. It’s fitting, then, that his first leading role — at the ripe old age of 77 — is a proper character, with a capital C.###After decades as a day player on other individual ’s films, there’s something sublime with regards to’concerning’with respect to seeing Kier dominate eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully scene of this tender , tender dramedy, and he doesn’t squander the opportunity. He plays Pat Pitsenbarger — based on a real-life “queer legend” of the same name from Sandusky, Ohio — with a mixture of wistful sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious ness, cranky irascibility and grubbish’trash -encrusted camp, and gives the role texture and tenacity. When we first meet Pat, he seems like any other resident of his care home: a grumpy old codger, dressed head to toe in grubby slacks, who’s not so hot on his feet anymore.###Then, when One Last Job arrives out of nowhere, Pat makes his way — on foot — to the funeral, gathering materials and memories as he goes. Writer-director Todd Stephens ekes out details of Pat’s eventful life slowly across the running time. There’s a in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer partner, who seems to possess’own’nurse passed in tragic circumstances; his in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer home, now an empty plot of land; an arch-rival hairdresser and stylist, played with typical larger-than-life glamour by Jennifer Coolidge; and the deceased client who set him on the journey in the first place, whom he describes as a “demanding Republican monster”, bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e adding, with a slight upturned smile, “…I adored her.”###It makes the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest impact when positioning Pat as a kind of elder statesman of the LGBTQ community.###Stephens’ script is peppered with these bittersweet reflections, and it makes the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest impact when positioning Pat as a kind of elder statesman of the LGBTQ community. One eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly pitched scene sees Pat and an old friend ruefully watch two young gay dads play with their kids, the years of once-unclaim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate able progress there in front of their eyes. Later, Pat visits a gay club and regular old haunt, merely’barely to learn it is closing down, and the film ponders where LGBTQ individual can find a sense of community when such approachable’genial spaces disappear.###Outside of these scenes, however, the film feels a little thinly sketched, treading water dramatically while Pat moves on to his next nostalgic encounter. It verges on slight: the film’s highest stakes concern Pat tracking down an old brand of shampoo. But it has a winningly reflective warmth to it, and credit must go to Kier’s perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance in/with regard to’concerning’regarding making Pat just so damn likeable, in spite of his withering scowls. He serves up looks in all manner of fabulous fashions — from a pastel safari suit to an old lady’s pink hat — while chain-smoking cigarillos, and through it all, still somehow remains wistful. It’s a reminder that he is one of our most valuable character actors; here’s hoping it doesn’t take another 200 films bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e his next lead role.