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Synopsis: Bridget Gregory has a lot going for her: she's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's married to a doctor. But all of this isn't enough, as her husband Clay finds out. After she persuaded him to sell medicinal cocaine to some drugdealers, she takes off with the money, almost a million dollars, and goes undercover in a mid-American smalltown. Because Clay has to pay off a loan shark who'll otherwise damage him severely, he keeps sending detectives after her, trying to retrieve the money. When Bridget meets Mike Swale, a naive local who is blinded by her beauty and directness, she devises an elaborate, almost diabolical scheme to get rid of Clay once and for all.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director(s): John Dahl
Production: October Films
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 9 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
R
Year:
1994
110 min
1,634 Views


I can be very nice when I try.

Sit down.

Maybe we just got off to a bad start.

I know Ray's put plenty of people in...

What are you... What are you doing?

I believe what we're looking for has a certain horse-like quality.

- Are you serious?

- Never buy anything sight-unseen.

Uh-huh. That's a good policy.

How many lovers?

- What? Do I get extra credit points for experience?

- How many lovers?

Thirteen... Tw-tw-Twelve.

- Any prostitutes?

- No.

- Any men?

- No. No men.

- Am I approved?

- Medically.

- You have your own place?

- Yes.

- Is it a sty?

- No, it's clean.

Do you have indoor plumbing?

Yes, I have indoor plumbing, I have electricity and I have a name.

No names.

Meet me outside.

Frank Griffith please.

Hi.

It's a local call.

It's personal.

Bridget.

- Always a pleasure.

- You still a lawyer Frank?

Yeah, you still a self-serving b*tch?

A friend needs advice.

I'll set it up for you:

A husband and wife do a one-time drug deal - the goal's a wholesome one.

College fund for the kids?

No. The wife wants new digs.

Comes off without a hitch,

only the wife decides that the new house would be happier without the husband.

Sharing was never her speciality.

She's anxious to start spending.

Well, it's just an opinion since you're not paying for it,

but the husband is entitled to half of

whatever you buy with that cash,

in fact as soon as you turn it into a legal asset

like a condo or a house or a bank account

he can make a claim on it.

What are you saying?

My lips moving too fast for you?

Not fast enough, as I recall.

Now, now! Keep it in cash.

He's not gonna ask a judge for half of that unless he wants

to spend 20 years in Attica with somebody's dick up his ass.

So, what - hold onto it for how long?

Well, as long as it takes to er, finalise the divorce.

How long does that take?

He'll fight it - maybe 2 years.

Less if you're lucky.

Jesus, Frank.

Well I'm sorry the law doesn't make it more convenient for

you to steal and deal drugs, Bridget!

OK, start the divorce.

Well that's gonna cost you - it's a lot of paperwork.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fill in the blanks for me - I'm out of town.

Where are you?

Maybury.

I'm going to Chicago to see an old friend.

Well that is the first place Clay'd expect you to go.

Stay put.

You can't be serious?

Look, maybe he won't stall.

Can he afford a good lawyer?

Not any more.

How silly of me to ask! Bye.

Hey, wait up!

Hey, where you going?

Morning.

Morning.

Morning! Beautiful day, isn't it?

Now boys, slow down!

Wait for me.

I can't believe our good fortune.

The fella we were about to go with

wasn't half as qualified.

Oh, you also have to sign here.

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Steve Barancik

Steve Barancik (born September 23, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois) is a screenwriter whose first screenplay, Buffalo Girls, was filmed and released as The Last Seduction in 1994. The film premiered as an HBO movie before going on shortly after to art house success. Actress Linda Fiorentino received notoriety for playing the movie's femme fatale, Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy, and Barancik was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery/crime screenplay of 1994.Barancik received critical acclaim for his screenplay for The Last Seduction, James Berardinelli called his dialogue "scintillating, often hilarious, and occasionally insightful", while Variety said his development of the narrative "is very skillful and original". The Washington Post claimed it was "a viciously funny first screenplay" from Barancik, and Kim Newman of Empire called his screenplay "superb". Barancik worked steadily in the industry but with little to show for it until receiving shared screenplay credit for 2002's No Good Deed. He also received shared story credit for 2005's Domino. Barancik is also the founder and a regular performer in Monolog Cabin, a group featuring writers performing comedic personal essays, which performs at Club Congress in Tucson, Arizona. He has developed a website devoted to the subject of quality children's books and another to collecting the experiences of authors who have self-published. more…

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