LAST DANCE (18)
D: Bruce Beresford
Touchstone/Buena Vista (Steven Haft)
US 1996
103 mins
Drama
W: Ron Koslow
DP: Peter James
Ed: John Bloom
Mus: Mark Isham
Sharon Stone (Cindy Liggett), Rob Morrow (Rick Hayes), Randy
Quaid (Sam Burns), Peter Gallagher (John Hayes), Jack Thompson (The Governer)
Weak attempt at a prison melodrama, in which an idealistic
young lawyer attempts to save a woman who has already been incarcerated for 12 years on death row.
One may think that, for this premise, a Hollywood executive
saw the film within a film from The Player (qv) and thought it would be a good project to greenlight before they even realised that it was a pisstake of Hollywood's output. Shelve this and watch
Dead Man Walking (qv) instead.
4/10