Pursuit of Loneliness (2012)

Director
Laurence Thrush

Main cast
Joy Hillie; Suzanne Faha; John Magginetti

Genres
Drama

Description
After an elderly hospital patient dies, a nurse tries unsuccessfully to contact the next of kin. Later, a social worker continues the effort but finds only the neighbor who was feeding the patient’s dogs. A county investigator fails to locate any relatives and ultimately must process the belongings in the decedent’s home. Meanwhile, we follow a frail man’s discharge from the hospital and an older woman’s day spent running errands and trying to stay cool during a heat wave.


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