The Last Supper (1995 film)

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The Last Supper
Theatrical poster for The Last Supper
Directed by	Stacy Title
Produced by	Matt Cooper Larry Wienberg
Written by	Dan Rosen
Starring	Cameron Diaz Ron Eldard Annabeth Gish Jonathan Penner Courtney B. Vance
Music by	Mark Mothersbaugh
Editing by	Luis Colina
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date(s)	1995
Running time	92 min.
Language	English
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The Last Supper is a 1995 drama It is the second film to be directed by Stacy Title. It stars Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner and Courtney B. Vance as five left-wing grad school liberals who share a house and discuss social issues over Sunday supper.

The movie was written by Dan Rosen.

Tagline(s):

Eat... drink... and be buried...

Love... Sex... Life... Death. In this house it's all on the table.

1 Synopsis
2 Principal cast
3 Trivia
4 Goofs and nitpicks
5 Critical reaction
6 Box office
7 External links

[edit] Synopsis

A group of liberal friends have a regular dinner date to which they occasionally invite guests. When a racist, child-molesting, murdering redneck and terrifying dinner guest (played by Bill Paxton) theatens to kill one of them, after being ridiculed for his thoughts, they kill him in "self defence" (Marc stabs him in the back, while stoned). In the wake of these events they are inspired to improve the world through radical means -- by killing those who make the world a worse place to live. The friends invite a variety of people whose political and social agendas they find offensive, from a reverend who considers AIDS to be the cure of the 'gay disease' to a radical pro-lifer. If they decide the person is too extremist to live, they poison them. As the movie progresses, the friends' standards of egregious political beliefs get progressively lower and they take more enjoyment in the murders themselves. Tensions build in the group as guilt and power trips abound, colliding with a search for a missing girl and a much-maligned Rush Limbaugh-style talk show host, played by Ron Perlman. They soon realize what they were doing was wrong.

[edit] Principal cast

Actor	Role
Cameron Diaz	Jude
Ron Eldard	Pete
Annabeth Gish	Paulie
Jonathan Penner	Marc
Courtney B. Vance	Luke
Bill Paxton	Zachary Cody
Nora Dunn	Sherriff Alice Stanley
Ron Perlman	Norman Arbuthnot

[edit] Trivia

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Immediately after shooting was completed, the house that was used in the movie burned to the ground.
One of the producers has a cameo as the man getting his book signed by Ron Perlman.
Beau Bridges was originally asked to play Norman Arbuthnot, but he turned the role down.
The film was shown at the 1995 Toronto Film Festival.
Jonathan Penner, an actor in the movie, appeared on Survivor: Cook Islands.

[edit] Goofs and nitpicks

Continuity: Marc pours wine from the blue bottle, then caps it. Subsequently it is seen both capped and uncapped.
Continuity: During dinner with the Reverend, dishes move around the table between shots.
Continuity: During the last supper, the green bottle gets emptied by the "left wingers" then when they are shown from different camera angles it's full again, then empty, then full, then empty again.
Continuity: During the last supper, Ron Perlman pours himself wine from the green bottle. Afterwards, Pete's glass, which was previously empty, is full, and he drinks from it.

[edit] Critical reaction

When it premiered, the film received a lukewarm critical response. It has garnered a 65% rating on the Tomatometer scale. Here are some sample reviews, both positive and negative:

"This low-budgeter that "came out of nowhere" is a fresh, pungent tale about Right and Left--and Right and Left--in contempo American politics, well-acted by a gifted ensmeble, including the young Cameron Diaz."

- Emanuel Levy

"All the courses are here and so are the nutrients, but The Last Supper, nevertheless, is a less-than-satisfying meal. The problem is not that things don't gel or aren't tasty; the problem resides more with its failure to froth."

- Marjorie Baumgarten