Last Dance

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