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Director John Dahl's The Last Seduction is an updated film noir centering around a seductive, cheerfully lethal femme fatale. Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) talks her gullible, easily manipulated,... read more read more... doctor-husband Clay (Bill Pullman) into pulling off a $700,000 drug deal to pay off his gambling debts. But while Clay is in the shower, Bridget quietly leaves with the money. She ends up in a bar in a small town where she meets Mike (Peter Berg) and uses him to further her scheme to keep the money and get rid of her inconvenient husband. Linda Fiorentino was championed by many critics for a Best Actress Academy Award nomination, but neither she nor the movie could be nominated since the film had made its debut on cable television. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Directed by: John Dahl

Release Date: June 18, 1994

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DVD Release Date: November 19, 2002

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  • August 25, 2009
    Quite chilling and zingy, but I'm slightly conflicted about Bridget's feminist rhetoric. I found myself liking her because she takes what she wants at whatever cost, but then I realized I was glorifying a sociopath. Is it feminist or unfeminist to like a woman because she's evi... read morel and damn good at it? Can we, as a gender-conscious society, like a "strong" female character only if she's also villainized? Sidebar: Doesn't Linda Fiorentino look like Lauren Bacall in that movie poster? I don't know if that's an implied reference to film noir, and as such, why every other review calls this film a neo-noir. I personally didn't see much film noir elements. It seems more screwball black black black comedy.
  • August 17, 2008
    Wonderful performance from Fiorentino.
  • March 23, 2008
    One of the underrated films of all time! A perfect film noir.

    *On my "best of the 1990s" list.
  • February 27, 2007
    This thriller film carries on with the treacherous world of relationships, dopey guys and narrative subterfuge.
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    August 26, 2010
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    Director John Dahl and actress Linda Fiorentino accomplish a very difficult task; to make you simultaneously empathize with and despise the character of Bridget Gregory. Probably one of the best femme fatale's to ever grace the screen.
  • October 9, 2009
    This film is based around the ultimate femme fatale, Linda Fiorentino who is totally believable as a sexy and manipulative b*tch. The story is clever and smart, very enjoyable, right up to the end where you can't help but feel sorry for anyone that tries to stop her getting her w... read moreay. This movie reveals that if a woman has both beauty and brains, and decides to use both to get what she wants, there is no stopping her. Peter Berg is good as the backwater boy who gets taken for a ride. The whole culture clash of city chick meeting country blumpkin is very amusingly done. The husband is Bill Pullman. He gives a terrific performance. Woken up at night by a gun-toting intruder who claims he is a burglar, Pullman blinks and says wearily, "I thought you were the new interior decorator." There are many memorable lines, intelligently written!

    Plot: Wife steals megabucks from husband and takes off. Husband finally tracks down wife and tries to get money back. Wife cold-bloodedly seduces innocent man into helping her.
  • November 20, 2011
    Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino), a sexy, savvy hustler, swindles husband Clay (Bill Pullman) out of $700,000 and then runs off to find a new patsy who'll help cover her tracks -- by murdering Clay. Fiorentino is enchantingly wicked as the cold-blooded beauty who uses men like ... read moretoys.

    Fiorentino's performance is one of the greatest villians roles I have ever seen. It is amazing and poignant seeing a female villian so cold and so ruthless toying with the men, manipulating them into her own doings, and getting away with it while laughing behind their backs and throwing them out like pieces of washed up meat.

    Ladies if you are reading this go and see this film and afterwords cheer for Linda Forentino.
  • August 21, 2011
    The last seduction must have been one of the best thrillers during the 1990's with one of the best female acts I've ever seen. Linda Fiorentino did a remarkable job as the femme fatale stealing her husband's drug money. It was all about lies, taking advantage of people and hidden... read more secrets.Bill Pullman played an interesting character as the husband trying to track down his wife. But it was Peter Berg, who stood out in the movie as the young man falling in love with Fiorentino, and ofcourse Linda Fiorentino herself who steals this movie. Every scene with those two in entertained, both on a comedy and dramatic and the sex scenes were amazing, all thanks to the great directorial hand by John Dahl. Peter Berg had an interesting face accompanied by a terrific sense for acting, giving his character the extra sensitive touch the movie required. This is a movie that will stand the test of time, it started a bit slow in the begining but catched up very quickly.
  • August 27, 2008
    One of the finest movies of the 90's.
  • March 28, 2008
    Great follow up to Red Rock West by the usually reliable Dahl. This is also a tribute to film noir with one of the greatest femme fatales in history. This was originally made for cable, but like with RRW it was so good they gave it a small theatrical release. A must see.

Critic Reviews


Desson Thomson
February 12, 2008
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

The movie is a spirited attempt at modern film noir, and huge parts of it are enjoyable. Full Review

Rita Kempley
February 12, 2008
Rita Kempley, Washington Post

What Sharon Stone did for the ice pick, Linda Fiorentino does for the ice princess. Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum
February 12, 2008
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

It's an entertaining and caustically humorous thriller if you like that sort of thing. Full Review

David Stratton
February 12, 2008
David Stratton, Variety

[A] well-paced, cleverly written and quite diabolical thriller. Full Review

Janet Maslin
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times

Mr. Dahl was good to begin with, and now he's badder and better. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Dahl gives us Linda Fiorentino as the baddest of the bad women, the most full-blown yet utterly believable femme fatale to come along in years. Full Review

James Berardinelli
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

Dahl has fun with this material, filming the modern-day noir potboiler with such gusto that it's impossible not to fall under its spell, nor under the influence of its sultry, completely conscienceles... Full Review

Lucy Mohl
January 1, 2000
Lucy Mohl, Film.com

Dahl makes a smart follow-up to Red Rock West with another striking piece of contemporary film noir.

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A movie that is not only ingenious and entertaining, but liberating, because we can sense the story isn't going to be twisted into conformity with some stupid formula. Full Review

John Hartl
January 1, 2000
John Hartl, Film.com

Fiorentino plows through this movie with a nihilistic get-out-of-my-way passion that instantly melts any objections to the occasionally farfetched plot.

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