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Last Embrace (1979)
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Average Rating:5.3/10
Synopsis: CIA secret agent Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider) has not been the same since his wife's murder. He suffers a nervous breakdown after the tragedy, which lands him in a sanitarium. Once released, he is... CIA secret agent Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider) has not been the same since his wife's murder. He suffers a nervous breakdown after the tragedy, which lands him in a sanitarium. Once released, he is pushed in front of a train and only narrowly escapes. Then he receives a cryptic letter that foretells his death. Now Harry suspects that he too is in danger and perhaps the target of a larger conspiracy, especially after he meets a graduate student named Ellie who might not be whom she claims to be, and malevolent types such as a homicidal prostitute and a pushy detective begin to crowd his sinister world. Are Harry's mournful anxieties just degenerating into paranoid madness? He has to discern reality from illusion while on the run because the menace is closing in on him fast. Jonathan Demme directed this elegant homage to director Alfred Hitchock that features several sequences that mirror the suspense master's own. A shower curtain pulled quickly back might remind viewers of PSYCHO; a frame filled with people all wearing the same raincoat mimics the famed overhead shot of a crowd of umbrellas in FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT; and the ominous soundtrack was composed by SPELLBOUND scorer Miklos Rosza. [More]
Starring: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken, John Glover
Starring: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken, John Glover, Sam Levene, Charles Napier, Jacqueline Brookes, David Margulies
Director: Jonathan Demme
Director: Jonathan Demme
Producer: Michael Taylor, Dan Wigutow
Screenwriter: David Shaber
Composer: Miklos Rozsa
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Demme puts nothing of himself into these paranoid shenanigans -- the movie is all too transparently his attempt to do something bankable.
Last Embrace is directed by Jonathan Demme and it packs a real wallop of suspense.
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