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The Last Shot (2004)

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Reviews Counted:65

Fresh:39

Rotten:26

Average Rating:5.9/10

Consensus: Wildly uneven comedy.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and some sexual content

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Sep 24, 2004 Wide

Box Office: $376,790

Synopsis: Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats (MATTHEW BRODERICK) is on the A-List of complete failures. With visions of development deals dancing in his head, his only ambition in life is to make movies.... Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats (MATTHEW BRODERICK) is on the A-List of complete failures. With visions of development deals dancing in his head, his only ambition in life is to make movies. Finally, after years of pitching his morbid screenplay to anyone with even a seventh degree of separation from a producer, he is suddenly about to join the ranks of the WGA's working roster. Which explains why he's eager to overlook the fact that Joe Devine (ALEC BALDWIN), who represents himself as the man who can green-light Steven's low-budget movie, is obviously more than a few film frames short of any box office insight. In a town where perception is reality, and imposters outnumber unproduced screenplays two to one, Devine is not who he claims to be. In truth, he's an agent—not of the William Morris variety— but with the FBI, and he's on a covert mission to ferret out the mob with criminal ties to Hollywood. While hardly the sharpest tool in the crime fighting shed, Devine is as determined to be a star at the Bureau as Schats is to be one in his industry. And he's just clever enough to make the trusting screenwriter believe that at last he's on the fast track to filmmaking success, in Touchstone Pictures' comedy, "The Last Shot." Touchstone Pictures presents A Morra, Brezner, Steinberg and Tenenbaum Production, in association with Mandeville Films, "The Last Shot," written and directed by Jeff Nathanson, based upon an article by Steve Fishman. Produced by Larry Brezner and David Hoberman, the film is executive produced by Stan Wlodkowski and Todd Lieberman.The co-producer is Ellen Erwin. "The Last Shot" is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. -- © Buena Vista Pictures [More]

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Calista Flockhart

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Calista Flockhart, W. Earl Brown, Tony Shalhoub, Joan Cusack

Director: Jeff Nathanson

Director: Jeff Nathanson
Producer: Larry Brezner, David Hoberman, Walter Hamada
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures

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  • THE LAST SHOT is the laugh-out-loud comedy caper that takes the movie business, the Mob, and the FBI and turns them into some very funny business indeed. Matthew Broderick (THE STEPFORD WIVES) and Academy Award? nominee Alec Baldwin (Best Supporting Actor, THE COOLER, 2003; ALONG CAME POLLY) head a cast of outstanding stars who steal scenes and grab your funny bone every chance they get. After years of being on the A-List of complete failures, Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats (Broderick) meets Joe Devine (Baldwin), a producer who green-lights his movie and makes him the director. But Devine isn't who he claims to be, not by a long shot. He's really an FBI agent using the movie in a sting to take down the mob. Inspired by the true story of the greatest movie never made, THE LAST SHOT is truly funny.
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    08/07/08
    Mark Halverson
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    08/16/07
    Derek Adams
    Derek Adams
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    02/09/06
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    The Last Shot is a fun movie that didn’t make much of a splash.

    Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
    07/22/05
    Kevin Carr
    Kevin Carr
    7M Pictures

    It's got some really solid actors and even a fairly amusing premise ... so where are all the laughs?

    Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | comment Comment
    05/25/05
    Scott Weinberg
    Scott Weinberg
    DVD Clinic

    Divertido em seu humor ingênuo e inofensivo, conquista principalmente graças ao carisma da dupla principal.

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    05/23/05
    Pablo Villaca
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    05/21/05
    Betty Jo Tucker
    Betty Jo Tucker
    ReelTalk Movie Reviews

    The story tries to make up for its lack of laughs by offering a series of quirky characters and bizarre moments, a tactic that works for a while but runs out of steam....

    Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
    05/16/05
    John J. Puccio
    John J. Puccio
    DVDTown.com

    ...never quite becomes anything more than a marginally entertaining way to kill 93 minutes.

    Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
    05/13/05
    David Nusair
    David Nusair
    Reel Film Reviews

    There must be a story behind the orphaning of this odd, insidery Hollywood comedy reputedly based on a true story.

    Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
    01/27/05
    Philip Martin
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
    N/R

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    10/29/04
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    10/19/04
    Jules Brenner
    Jules Brenner
    Cinema Signals

    A silly movie that never for a minute tries to be anything else...it doesn't require anything from its audience but to laugh and enjoy the show.

    Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
    10/15/04
    Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
    Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
    TheMovieChicks.com

    enlivened by a steady stream of contributing talents

    Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
    10/14/04
    Jules Brenner
    Jules Brenner
    Filmcritic.com

    The Last Shot doesn't crackle and pop, but the send-up of Hollywood and the government gets off some good lines and generally endears itself with a kind of earnest scattershot loopiness.

    Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
    10/14/04
    Jane Sumner
    Jane Sumner
    Dallas Morning News
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    The Last Shot commits the cardinal sin of comedies: it isn't funny.

    Full Review Source: Movie Boeuf | comment Comment
    10/11/04
    David N. Butterworth
    David N. Butterworth
    Movie Boeuf

    There's an eccentric enchantment and easy friendliness to screenwriter Jeff Nathanson's modest debut film.

    Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
    10/08/04
    Joe Baltake
    Joe Baltake
    Sacramento Bee

    Broderick and Baldwin occupy the center ring quite entertainingly, but there's a lot of hysterically funny upstaging from the sidelines.

    Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
    10/06/04
    Harry Haun
    Harry Haun
    Film Journal International

    Ultimately plays like a low-rent version of the far superior Get Shorty.

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    10/06/04
    Timothy Knight
    Timothy Knight
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    Match the right actors to right roles, and it doesn't always matter when a movie misses its potential.

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    10/04/04
    Jeffrey Westhoff
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