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Journeyman

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8. His last movie was "The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez," released in April 2012. . .
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 06:15 PM
Jul 2012

I haven't seen it, but evidently he played the title role:

Ernest Borgnine plays Rex Page, an old man who is bitter about never becoming famous and having lived a life without any meaning. After suffering a stroke, he ends up in a nursing home staffed by Latin American immigrants. Put off by the situation, Rex focuses his energy on getting out, which places him at odds with the Latino workers. However, their relationship takes on new meaning when it is discovered that he once shook hands with Vicente Fernandez, a Mexican singer, producer and actor idolized throughout Latin culture. The employees soon begin to treat Rex like the celebrity he's always dreamed of being.
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