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Last Dance by Bruce Beresford
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DVD detailsActor: Jack Thompson, Peter Gallagher, Randy Quaid, Rob Morrow, Sharon Stone Director: Bruce Beresford Brand: Buena Vista Home Video Cinematographer: Peter James Editor: John Bloom Producer: Chuck Binder Producer: Richard Luke Rothschild Producer: Steven Haft Writer: Steven Haft Writer: Ron Koslow DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 103 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-04-08 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Walt Disney Video Product features: - Megastar Sharon Stone (CASINO, SPHERE) powers this gripping and suspenseful story of a woman on death row and the one man fighting to save her! Cindy Liggett (Stone) is a convicted killer facing imminent execution . until a young lawyer, Rick Hayes (Rob Morrow, TV's NORTHERN EXPOSURE, QUIZ SHOW), becomes convinced her case doesn't warrant the death penalty. With time running out, Rick sta
DVD Reviews of Last DanceDVD Review: Wow, how'd we all miss this one????? Summary: 5 Stars
OK, I bought this movie to try a movie on my iPod - there weren't many to choose from and I was hesitant because I don't usually particularly enjoy Sharon Stone - but, wow. This is a must see movie in my opinion, well acted, etc. Too bad it somehow didn't get noticed because of "Dead Man Walking" - which was a good movie, but would not get 5 stars from me. All movies have some plots that are used over and over - I believe the saying is that there are really only 5(?) plots - so this one, as all of them do, has intermingled things we've seen before, but they are extremely well interwoven with each other. As I said, I am not much of a Sharon Stone fan, but she's "typed out of cast" in this one, and is very impressive. Rob Morrow does a great job too, and as, almost, always, Randy Quaid. I'll watch it many times over - my true judge of whether a movie is good or not. And, I was fortunate enough to get the widescreen version, I can no longer enjoy the full screen versions - what can I say?
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Description of Last DanceMegastar Sharon Stone (CASINO, SPHERE) powers this gripping and suspenseful story of a woman on death row and the one man fighting to save her! Cindy Liggett (Stone) is a convicted killer facing imminent execution ... until a young lawyer, Rick Hayes (Rob Morrow, TV's NORTHERN EXPOSURE, QUIZ SHOW), becomes convinced her case doesn't warrant the death penalty. With time running out, Rick stages an 11th-hour challenge to the enormous political pressures weighing against them! Featuring a first-rate cast, including Peter Gallagher (WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING) and Randy Quaid (INDEPENDENCE DAY), this must-see hit will have you on the edge of your seat ... from beginning to end! 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
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