Product Details

• Actors: Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Peter Gallagher, Jack Thompson
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: April 8, 2003
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304202741
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,650 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

In 1996, Sharon Stone put a little grit into her glamorous image by playing a suspicious, snarling death row inmate caught up in the politics of the death penalty. Director Bruce Beresford tackled a similar drama in his uncompromising Breaker Morant, but here he's stuck with a script that favors the tepid story of her ne'er-do-well clemency lawyer (Rob Morrow), whose dormant conscience awakens as he champions her case. It's a well-meaning effort undercut by sentimentality (Beresford gives in to the impulse to find the sweet puppy dog behind Stone's feral street-mutt exterior) and the bad luck to come after the similarly themed but superior Dead Man Walking. Give Stone credit for the passion and conviction to make you care anyway. --Sean Axmaker

From The New Yorker

Although Bruce Beresford's capital-punishment drama, in which Sharon Stone plays a murderer awaiting execution, is bound to be compared with "Dead Man Walking," most of the optimistic moviegoers who buy tickets to this new picture probably aren't expecting docudrama realism. More likely, they're hoping for a flamboyant death-row weepie on the order of "I Want to Live!" (1958), in which Susan Hayward tottered on high heels to a date with destiny in the gas chamber at San Quentin. No one spends good money to watch Sharon Stone underact. But that's exactly what she does here, giving a quiet, unmannered performance as a remorseful killer whose case arouses the interest of a young lawyer (dull Rob Morrow) in the Governer's office. Stone's ability to suppress her natural extravagance and remain in character would be more impressive if the screenwriter, Ron Koslow, had supplied her with a character worth remaining in. This picture won't satisfy anyone: it's too hokey and melodramatic to be taken seriously, yet too restrained to rate as a camp classic. Also with Randy Quaid and Peter Gallagher. -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sharon Stone, more than makeup and short skirts, January 22, 2002

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B. Bagne (Commerce, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Dance [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I stumbled across this movie on television recently and was mesmerized by Sharon Stone's performance. Her looks were down-played for her role of death row inmate and what showed through was luminous acting and touching vulnerability. Her character, bred from white trash and convicted of a brutal double murder, brought a new insight into the circumstances surrounding violent crime and the reform found in prison. This movie made me doubt my firm stance in support of capital punishment (and that's not easy to do). Rob Morrow is both sensitive and powerful as the rich kid attorney that finds something to fight for in his defence of this woman. Overall, a moving and tragic movie not to be missed, and definitely notable among other death row dramas for its gender reversal and the new perspective that brings.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars see it if you haven't seen dead man walking, January 12, 2002

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geO_playboy (Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Dance [VHS] (VHS Tape)

OK, I haven't seen dead man walking, so I'm not as mad as most people who think this is a rip-off of that movie. The movie isn't lame, it isn't very powerfull either, but it still makes a sad compelling movie. Rick chooses his first case, that of Cindy, who was convicted of a double murder. After she, not having close relatives but a brother whose also locked up, isn't intersted of being saved, he thru showing her compassion and caring, she finally realizes that there's so many things for her to do, she didn't want to die, but she didn't want to be locked up in there forever, but after that, she just doesn't want to die. So, I liked the movie, I was surprised by the ending, because it seemed that rick had done so much, but really, it just seemed that way since you get so involved in seeing how he tries so hard to save her. It shows you how some people can really change, and the dilema of having less than 30 days to save someone you've gotten so involved with.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting, December 31, 2005

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Oswald Muerner "New Age-Punk" (Bern, Schweiz) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Dance (DVD)

Touching social drama about the topic of death penalty with Sharon Stone and Rob Morrow. The fate behind the criminal offense is uncovered. Despite all efforts they don't succeed in averting the execution. The questionableness of the death penalty is shown in all distinctness.