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Actors: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Tony Shalhoub, Calista Flockhart, Toni Collette, Joan Cusack, James Rebhorn, Ray Liotta
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Last Shot |
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FBI Special Agent Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin) longs to hit the big time. While his brother Jack (Ray Liotta) has already made to the assistant directorship, Joe's stuck in places like Houston, running stings on sorta-connected pseudo-wiseguys.
When he's sent to Providence, Rhode Island to work a sting on Tommy Sanz (Tony Shalhoub), a second cousin of John Gotti who makes his money selling hot TVs and shaking down the Teamsters, Joe has a brilliant idea: He can pose as a Hollywood film producer shooting a film in Providence, bribe Sanz to fix his union troubles, and take him down for racketeering.
Once he gets the operation approved by his superior (James Rebhorn), though, Joe runs into his first problem: Where can he find a screenplay good enough to seem real, yet with an author naive enough to believe Joe's front? He finds the answer in Steven Schats (Matthew Broderick), a manager/usher at Mann's Chinese Theatre with a script about a dying woman wandering through the Arizona desert in search of herself.
There are a few natural production problems, especially when Joe tries to convince Steven to shoot scenes of the Arizona desert in Rhode Island, but the casting of ditzy, Oscar-nominated bombshell Emily French (Toni Collette) in the lead role causes the film's profile to take off. And with Tommy Sanz bringing in more mob big shots on the deal, it looks like both Steve and Joe are about to hit the big time.
--James Craver, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Last Shot |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Kind of comedy
- comedy about making a movie
How much humor v. drama
- Lot of humor, but significant serious drama
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- wealthy
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- licking
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing
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