The Last Supper *** (1995, Cameron Diaz, Courtney B Vance, Charles Durning, Ron Perlman, Annabeth Gish, Bill Paxton) – Classic Movie Review 6411

Director Stacy Title’s edgy and awkward 1995 political black comedy thriller stars Cameron Diaz, Courtney B Vance, Charles Durning, Ron Perlman, Annabeth Gish and Bill Paxton.

The screenplay is by Dan Rosen, in which a quintet of liberal-minded college graduates – Jude (Cameron Diaz), Luke (Courtney B Vance), Marc (Jonathan Penner), Paulie (Annabeth Gish) and Pete (Ron Eldard) – accidentally kills a fascist, racist neo-Nazi truck driver Zachary Cody (Paxton) who has given the stranded Pete a lift home, prompting them to start a spree of political murders of their weekly dinner party right-wing house guests.

The Last Supper is clever and entertaining, though not quite a scintillating movie, with excellent performances from the actors playing the guests – Paxton, Durning and Perlman – who tend to overshadow the main cast.

Also in the cast are Nora Dunn, Dan Rosen and Mark Harmon.

Paxton shot his brief scenes during a weekend off from filming Apollo 13 (1995).

It is shot by Paul Cameron, produced by David Cooper, Matt Cooper, Larry Weinberg and Dan Rosen, scored by Mark Mothersbaugh and designed by Linda Burton.

Stacy Title is married to Penner. They have two children.

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