Last Dance (1996)

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 Amazon.com

Last dance

I was very happy with my movie, since it's kinder old i did't think i could find it, but amazon had it. Thank you. September 2, 2008

real meaning for intense

actually the thing that i really liked in this movie that it shows the real tense in acting and you feel petty for sharon stone , we can say : sometimes justice can be crime . May 28, 2008

One of the best legal dramas

This is probably one of the best modern legal dramas out there in line with "The Rainmaker" and just a notch below "A Few Good Men."

April 26, 2008

Sharon Stone in a character part

Last Dance DVD

Last Dance is a movie starring Sharon Stone and Rob Morrow. Stone is a prisoner sitting on death row facing execution with a new attorney (Morrow) trying to defend her, get a stay or something? Stone gives a commanding performance right down to the prison "tat" on her hand.

If you like Sharon Stone, you'll like this movie.

Recommended for fans of Sharon Stone and Rob Morrow.



April 21, 2008

It Was Done Better Elsewhere.

Trying to save a convicted person from execution as time runs out is an inherently dramatic situation, and that is the basic plot of this film. However, having previously seen "I Want To Live" with Susan Hayward's academy award winning performance as convicted murderess Barbara Graham, and "Dead Man Walking," with Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, I found this film's plot to be a predictable rehash of these others. Even the dramatic last minute reprieve of Sharon Stone before her final execution shortly afterward was also done in "I Want to Live." Nor did the performances of the players seem to come across as compellingly as those in the two films mentioned.

The film should appeal primarily to those who have an intense interest in issues touching on the death penalty and, in particular, in its application. November 20, 2007

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