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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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May 10, 2005
Reviews for The Last Shot
The premise of this Disney-funded movie, based on a true story, is promising, but the film itself is a hard slog.
[Director Jeff Nathanson] sucks the life and the timing out of every scene.
instead of a sharp satiric edge, there is the dull thud of overripe tomatoes hitting the pavement
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.
...never quite becomes anything more than a marginally entertaining way to kill 93 minutes.
There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.
In the terms of the money-hungry Hollywood mindset, The Last Shot is an amusing, likable sleeper hit, but not an out-of-the-stratosphere blockbuster.
More or less a neutered version of Robert Altman’s sexy beast The Player.
The level of enjoyment one might get from a film about the film industry is probably exponentially based on one’s own interest or involvement within the film industry.
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