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Last Supper [VHS] (1996)

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard Director: Stacy Title Rating: R (Restricted) Format: VHS Tape
4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Actors: Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner, Courtney B. Vance
  • Directors: Stacy Title
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Sony Pictures
  • VHS Release Date: April 1, 1997
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6304177259
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,239 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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    #80 in  Video > Comedy > Black Comedy

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Painted in mile-wide strokes of black satirical comedy, The Last Supper turns intolerance into a parlor trick, then repeats it ad nauseam in case we missed the joke. Still, redundancy can be fun when applied to the premeditated murder of right-wing extremists by self-righteous left-wing zealots; director Stacy Title is an equal-opportunity offender, never taking sides. The grisly high jinks commence when a truck-driving, child-molesting, Hitler-loving ex-Marine (Bill Paxton, acing the role) is accidentally killed while dining with a clutch of snobby liberal grad students, played with uniform excellence by Cameron Diaz (showing early promise), Ron Eldard, Courtney B. Vance, Annabeth Gish, and coproducer Jonathan Penner. Having acquired a taste for blood, the wine-poisoning liberals stage "last suppers" with hand-picked targets (Charles Durning, Mark Harmon, Jason Alexander, and ultimately Ron Perlman), eventually attracting a suspicious sheriff (fine work by SNL alumnus Nora Dunn). It's got all the subtlety of a pile-driver, but The Last Supper craftily defends free speech by exposing its most vicious violations. --Jeff Shannon

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Machiavellian Menu?, May 9, 2005
This review is from: The Last Supper (DVD)
It was a dark and stormy night when five liberal graduate students in Iowa meet for Sunday dinner and find that in an excess of gratitude (for providing a ride to one of their members) they have invited a right-wing nut case to join them. Before dinner is over, the guest has pulled a knife and threatened several of the students, and in a move that is obviously defensive but not self-defense, one of the students delivers a knife to the back of the guest, who then dies. Contemplating their options, the students determine the best course is to dispose of the body in the backyard. As they debate the "how the liberals talk and talk and don't do anything" (except that they did) the opportunities for future dinner "dates" and just a bit of arsenic in the wine becomes a reality. As the plants in the backyard flourish with the new fertilizer, the sheriff is becoming curious, the students are nervous and on edge - and the very Last Supper delivers a truly Machiavellian twist.

Did the choice of title chase away the intended audience? Perhaps that is the explanation for why this film is so little known. Save it for a dark and stormy night, and be ready for a surprise.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Gem, March 23, 2005
This review is from: The Last Supper (DVD)
Group of intellects create their own moral dilemma. I saw this movie years ago and it's been one of my all time favorite conversation pieces. If you like intelligent conversation, and always think you're right... SEE THIS. Cameron Diaz is a minor player in this cast of majors, but she does the job. The one to look out for is "Hellboy". Enjoy. And then remember it the next time you have a dinner party.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars DARK SATIRE OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT, September 27, 2006
By Ernest Jagger (Culver City, California) - See all my reviews
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"The Last Supper" is a great gem of a film that spoofs both the left and the right. The story centers around five liberal graduate students who gather around the dinner table not only for their meal, but to take in the days political and social talk. Enter a guest whose car has broken down (Bill Paxton). He has been given a lift by (Ron Eldard). Offered food and shelter, the conversation shifts to politics. And here is where the film takes off. Paxton is a veteran of the Gulf War and ridicules his guests as pseudo-intellectuals who only talk, but never act.

However, things turn for the worse when he pulls out a knife and threatens one of the liberal students. In turn, he is accidentally killed. When the others find out later that he was wanted in the connection with a missing child [suspected serial killer] they believe they have done good. Moreover, they take it to another step: such as inviting rightwing demogogues and other extremists to their weekend dinner with the intent to kill them, and therefore, in their eyes, rid the world of evil. Only their own moral and ethical tenets are put to the test when they begin to kill anyone who happens to harbor even the slightest rightward tilt.

One of the funniest guests is a pastor [Charles Durning] who happens to believe AIDS is Gods will, and that those who suffer from it are only being made to suffer due to Gods will. His character is very funny. However, when they happen to stumble upon their greatest nemesis, [Ron Perlman] who portrays a sort of Rush Limbaugh type character, his logic challenges them at the dinner table. In turn they choose not to kill him. [All five must agree to the killing]. If any single one of them say no, then they cannot go ahead with the killing.

This largely forgotten classic dark-comedy is full of funny wit. Both the guests with their extreme rightwing views; and their five liberal hosts, make for one funny and witty satire of both the extreme elements of the left and the right. The writing is very witty as both the liberal students as well as their rightwing guests are parodied to the hilt. I have this film on DVD, however, amazon has it listed only as a VHS. If you can, get hold of a copy, it is well worth owning. Highly recommended. [Stars: 5+]
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