The Last Supper |  | Actors: Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner, Courtney B. Vance
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD07738D
ISBN: 0767881249
UPC: 043396077386
EAN: 9780767881241
ASIN: B00007CVRS
Theatrical Release Date: April 5, 1996
Release Date: January 7, 2003
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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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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-JAN-2003
Media Type: DVD
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 An amusing, political, and macabre film about young adults February 9, 2010
Pork Chop (Lisbon, Portugal)
The Last Supper (1995) is a Cognac's Police Festival prizewinner
with a story that is realistic, portraying the politicized minds of
some college and graduate-school aged individuals - not paying
taxes, and not having to answer to a boss - their only concern
being of a single feeling, thought and opinion, collectively in
agreement about various news of the day.
With enormous time on their hands, and pleasure in discussing their
studies and hobbies, the 5 individuals get together weekly, and at
one point, decide to become political vigilantes, or judge, jury and
executioners of guests invited over for dinner, officially hoping
the latter are amenable in changing their political stances over
the course of a meal.
The film is wide-screen, with some pop music mixed in between, the
story well edited, and laid out, reminiscent somewhat of Stephen
King's novels. This is the case from the horror mixed into the main
story, and given a lackadaisical treatment.
Interestingly, the political clique's original appraoch of patience,
and a fair and balanced approach to the dinner guests morphes into a
pedal-to-the-metal expediency in purging the town from some of its
most outspoken citizens, proponents of traditional values.
They are all-American individuals, played by Cameron Diaz, Ron
Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner, Courtney Vance, Bill
Paxton and Jonathan Penner, with a fine acting, often amusing,
charming even, while at the same time, mature and serious as a
litany of discussions ensue weighing in on the face of their guests.
Some issues covered by guests are as patriotism, the military,
taxation, the costs of leadership, the HIV virus and the community
most affected, euthanasia, misogyny and chauvinism, abortion,
America's Baptist, Evangelical and Protestant churches,
homelessness, Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, global warming,
species in danger of extinction, mensa, birth control, family
values, sex education in schools, scripture, etc.
The clan later unknowingly submits to a test of character and
objectivity in face of a tele-evangelist met at an airport, who they
considered their nemesis. Hearing his ideas and businessman
explanations, the group try hard to restrain their subjective and
pre-conceived ideas based on earlier TV programming watched, and
their pavlovian reactions.
In the meantime, the town's law enforcement conducts an
investigation over a number of disappearances in the area, while
strife and rifts open up between members, as more and more guests
are accepted.
In sum, the film may be underestimated in its simplicity, TV actors
and macabre running theme, but this film definitely deserves to be
seen. It's a wake up call in some ways to political awareness by
those who often can't wrap their minds around political stories in
the media, or ignore those.
 "Let's have a toast!" September 7, 2009
J from NY (New York)
Director Stacy Title and screenwriter Dan Rosen--surely at both's finest hour--created with this film perhaps the ultimate cautionary tale of what dehumanization and rage labels like "liberal" and "conservatives" can create when accepted as absolute identity.
Rosen was at one time a stand up comic with a taste for dark humor, and "The Last Supper" provides that in spades (if you have the stomach for it).
The plot of the film is really only a skeleton for what the creators are trying to say. A group of liberal undergraduate college students invite vicious right-wing and well known Conservative pundits to for a pleasant dinner, and then perform a little "Arsenic and Lace" with a blue bottle of poison they mask as strong wine. One has to suspend one's disbelief a little to enjoy the movie: if these people are so famous, why the hell don't they tell anyone where they're having dinner or who invited them? People like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Ann Coulter make sure they are heavily guarded at all times. Though all five of them are involved, the leader (played with a perfect concentrated madness by a young Courtney B. Vance) Luke is the engine behind it all.
At the beginning of the film a young soldier (Zac) returning home from the Persian Gulf War ("Was that a war or a Republican TV commercial?" Luke unwisely asks) needs shelter from the rain. The five make a bad choice and let him in. Things go from unpleasant to bad to worse to homicidal as the anger builds between this maniac and the five students; he praises Hitler, deems liberals less than human beings, and puts a knife to the throat of Mark, a Jewish student. He then proceeds to break the arm of another member, lets him fall to the ground, and Mark stabs him in the back.
This is an important part in the film. It wasn't *exactly* self defense. While this guy was obviously sociopathic and may have hurt the rest of them, a second viewing shows Mark approach long after his friend has hit the ground and is no longer in danger. It's hard to feel sympathy for Zac, but this is really how it starts. Luke jumps right on the bandwagon, stating coldly: "We should just finish dessert and bury the cracker."
Later on, a local female sherrif shows up asking about Zac. He had, apparently, raped murdered a young girl in the community before arriving. This fuels the group's thoughts that if they kill these people before they live out a natural life, they may be saving the world from great harm. The ancient shoulda woulda coulda question is asked repeatedly, at the film's climax: "It's 1909. You find yourself in a bar with a young artist named Adolf Hitler. Do you kill him to save billions of people?"
Title and Rosen toy with the viewer, swaying from the wussy excesses of ultra liberals to the outright evil of the far right. Both become annoying. Still, though, when we encounter "Norman" (Ron Perlman), the group's main target, we see what they are driving at.
A hilarious masterpiece, more relevant today than ever.
 A Sinister Superiority Complex March 7, 2009
K. Fontenot (The Bayou State)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Have you ever wondered what hardcore liberals dream of doing to their right-wing adversaries? In "The Last Supper," the audience gets to see just that. Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard and Annabeth Gish head up a quintet of superior-minded liberals who quickly gain a taste for murder after helping out a right-wing nutjob (Bill Paxton).
When Paxton goes too far at the supper table, it costs him his life. This sets into motion a string of murders by the five like-minded friends. They invite right-wing enemies to their supper table and throw questions at them in order to determine whether the conservative lives or dies.
As the bodies pile up, the lust for blood grows stronger in some members of the group. The local sheriff (a solid Nora Dunn) is also growing suspicious of the group and the wonderful tomatoes that begin to grow in their back yard.
Soon enough, the group encounters the holy grail of all conservatism, a loudmouthed Rush Limbaugh-type character played to perfection by Ron Perlman. When he proves to be a strong adversary, the group unravels and begins to argue with itself about whether or not Perlman should live or die.
In the end, though, Perlman's fate is determined. Does he live or die? You'll have to watch this dark comedy to find out.
The strongest performances in "The Last Supper" come via Perlman and Courtney B. Vance, who plays one of the loftiest of the five murderers. Gish and Eldard are exceptionally over-the-top in their performances, actually weakening the film a bit.
Overall, this film takes no sides in the political arena. Sure leftist loonies appear to have the upper hand throughout, but conservatives get a few punches in too.
I recommend this film to liberals so that they can live out some of their wildest fantasies. Extreme right-wingers are given their just desserts. I also recommend this film to conservatives because it gives a hilarious look into the lives lefties who believe they know what's best for everyone but, when given a strong adversary, fall all to pieces and actually turn on one another.
Great movie February 14, 2009
Janet L. Hammer (Deer Park, Illinois-Portland, Oregon)
What an interesting movie. It's a dark comedy with attention to dialogue.
Well worth the purchase.
Great tongue-in-cheek comdey January 30, 2009
Martin R. Smith (Atlanta, GA United States)
Wonderful film that awakems the liberal instinct in you. Only bad part is ending when killers die.
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