A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 9 wins & 10 nominations total
- Stacy
- (as Donna Wilson)
- Mail Boy
- (as Bill Stevenson)
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- TriviaLinda Fiorentino was widely lauded by critics for her performance in this movie but was denied an Academy Award nomination because it came out on TV before a theatrical release.
- GoofsJust before Bridget sees the fuel gauge is empty, she is smoking. After cutting to the close-up of the gauge and then back to Bridget, her cigarette has disappeared.
- Quotes
Bridget Gregory: Could you leave? Please?
Mike Swale: I haven't finished charming you yet.
Bridget Gregory: You haven't started.
Mike Swale: Gimme a chance.
Bridget Gregory: Look, go find yourself a nice little cowgirl and make nice little cowbabies and leave me alone.
Mike Swale: I'm hung like a horse. Think about it.
[pause]
Bridget Gregory: Let's see.
Mike Swale: Excuse me?
Bridget Gregory: Mr. Ed, let's see.
Mike Swale: Look, I tried to be nice. I can see that's something you're not...
Bridget Gregory: No, I'm trying. I can be very nice when I try. Sit down.
Mike Swale: OK, maybe we just got off to a bad start. I know plenty of people -
[Bridget unzips his fly]
Mike Swale: What are you doing?
Bridget Gregory: I believe what we're looking for is a certain horse-like quality?
- Alternate versionsAn extended version re-adds approximately 25 minutes of deleted scenes. However, the scenes are lower resolution, have had no post production, and even include on-screen timecode, interfering with the flow and tone.
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Written by The ElderGreens
Performed by The ElderGreens
One always gets a sense of dread when reading of a modern Noir film doing the rounds, that sense that the film is obviously poor and the makers are desperately trying to sell it to the uninitiated genre seekers. Two fold worry comes when the said film is a TV movie that, until it's word of mouth got it noticed, had no theatrical release at all. Of course when said film turns out to be a clinically great movie then the joy is hard to contain, two fold! The Last Seduction is a darkly funny, cynically nasty, triumphant piece of cinema.
What is most refreshing with the piece is that it gives the movie watching world a female character of rich devilment substance, the kind we rarely see in the modern age of cinema. Here with Bridget Gregory we have not only a sexually aggressive femme fatale, but also a girl who is so wickedly intelligent it makes the men in her life seem like lobotomised amoeba's! It's quite a role that any serious actress should want to take on and conquer. As it was, the gig went to the (then) largely unknown Linda Fiorentino, who positively grasps the opportunity with both her hands and teeth to create one of the 90s most unheralded female performances. Backed up by the astute casting of Bill Pullman and Peter Berg as the differing hapless men in her life, the result is close to being TV movie gold.
Technically the film obviously pings with a TV movie production value, but this is off set by the excellent photography from Jeff Jur, smoky bars captured in the truest feel of a noirish dream about to become a whole heap of trouble and strife. Great score from Joseph Vitarelli that perfectly fuses jazz beats with the pulse beat of the story, the story that is so very well written by Steve Barancik, and it's here outside of Fiorentino's performance where the success of the film can be found. The plot twists and turns like a worm trying to negotiate its way out of some noir labyrinth, with dashes of crackling dialogue helping to keep the journey a compulsory viewing, and then the end caps it off and you will not know if you should laugh or be shocked? Chances are you will be doing both.
Not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but one of the best TV movie's ever? Hell yes, immense fun to be had with this one. 8/10
- hitchcockthelegend
- Nov 18, 2008
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Box office
- Budget
- $2,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,842,603
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $45,058
- Oct 30, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $5,842,603
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1