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The Last Seduction
1994
The director of "Red Rock West" delivers this unusual thriller about a femme fatale who absconds with her husband's drug money. Fiorentino is enchantingly wicked as the cold-blooded beauty who uses men like toys. Read more
| Starring | Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, J.T. Walsh |
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| Director | John Dahl |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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The Last Seduction
The director of "Red Rock West" delivers this unusual thriller about a femme fatale who absconds with her husband's drug money. Fiorentino is enchantingly wicked as the cold-blooded beauty who uses men like toys.
| Starring | Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, J.T. Walsh, Bill Nunn, Dean Norris, Walter Addison |
|---|---|
| Director | John Dahl |
| Studio | PRISM LEISURE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Feisty Females |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Feb 2004 Production year: 1994 |
| Format | DVD |
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Virtuoso revamping of the film noir genre, with a clever, tightly written, witty script, taut direction and a splendidly tart performance from Fiorentino.
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"...A devilishly entertaining crime story with a heroine who must be seen to be believed....A gripping story and a tight, suspenseful directorial style..."
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33 out of 44 people found this review helpful
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Seduced!
Wonderful script! And a sexy but wholly convincing performance from the delicious Linda Fiorentina. Oh, and then there's the ending too!
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- younglochinvar from Prestatyn
- Posted 18 Sep 2007 18:19
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The Last Seduction
Having set up a drug deal with her husband (Pullman) Bridget Gregory (Fiorentino) steals the $700,000 they made on it while he is in the shower and moves to a new town called Beston. Desperate to get back to New York and start spending she ensnares local boy Mike (Berg) in a complex plot to tie up her loose ends.
John Dahl's neo-noir is one of the best examples of the genre since Billy Wilder's defining masterpiece Double Indemnity, that it was ineligible for Oscars because it debuted on US cable channel HBO is one of the great crimes of those awards, if only because Linda Fiorentino should have won.
As her Lawyer (Walsh) puts it in one of the funniest lines in an often wry script Bridget is a self serving bitch, she's also as memorable, as sexy and as scary a femme fatale as the screen has to offer. Fiorentino is completely believeable in the role and you can see why Mike is seduced by her.
As Mike Peter Berg (now a director, he made his debut with the underrated Very Bad Things) has a naievite that works for the role and the same moral responses as the audience to Bridget, he's our identification point and his understated performance works well for the film, allowing Fiorentino to be the charismatic presence she needs to be for the plot to work.
And what a plot it is. Intricate, clever, and often surprising Dahl's screenplay plays with the conventions of Noir and gives it a jolt of sexuality that brings it into the more permissive 90's.
The supporting cast is minimal but memorable with Pullman and an excellent Walsh the standouts.
The ending leaves things open and unresolved (leading to a sequel which involved none of the team from the original film and, by all accounts, was terrible).
The Last Seduction is a great film; clever, sexy, funny and always one step ahead of you the audience and if you've not yet seen it you really should try to. -
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