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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Netherlands released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: When his wife is killed in a restaurant shoot-out, intelligence man Harry Hannan has a breakdown and finds that his department don't want him back. Someone's trying to kill him and it could be them, though a cryptic Jewish death-threat suggests there's something else going on. His only ally seems to be mousy Ellie Fabian who has managed to move into his New York apartment.
Last Embrace Reviews:
An emblematic thriller plenty of action! 
2006-07-24 - A CIA agent sees his wife ambushed and the increasing tension along the film is how, when and where he will be the next.
The smart plot conserves the basic elements of the best Hitchcock. High caliber thriller that will make you hold to your seat.
A thriller worthy to mention for an incipient director at that moment: Jonathan Demme.
PREVIEW OF GREATNESS TO COME
2004-04-30 - This was the prologue to Jonathan Demme's directorial greatness, with MELVIN AND HOWARD, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, STOP MAKING SENSE...LAST EMBRACE is a tight little thriller that sadly never found an audience. There are some great moments here: Christopher Walken as the snary head of the nameless intel-agency; Roy Scheider's wardrobe; Janet Margolin in the bathtub (and shower). Great homage to all classic suspense films. Where's the DVD?
what Hitchcock could have done with this! 
2000-11-19 - This exercise in neo-Hitchcockian psychological thriller is proof positive that no one can beat the Master at his own game, even when the director is as talented as Jonathon Demme. The start is deliciously promising with titles that move around and an irrestistibly lush score by Miklos Rozsa, but soon Demme gets bogged down - there is a recap of the opening scene that reads as totally superfluous - and in spite of having an unusually well-written and witty script to play with, Demme falls back on campy direction. One can practically tick off the allusions to Spellbound, Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho when they come. The lighting of this film is generally uninspired, and there is a particulaly badly handled set-piece in a belltower. Even the climactic chase at Niagara Falls (a location Hitchcock never got to), is disappointing. You know Demme is lost when he can't even present the falls well. As the man on the run from an Aramaic death threat for being the descendent of a white slave "whoremaster", Roy Scheider is dressed in a white suit so that we get that he is wired. Scheider is too neurotic to be a romantic lead. When he suggests that Janet Margolin has unfinished business with him as a come on, we're surprised she doesn't head for the door. Margolin does well as the repressed anthropologist (Scheider amusingly describes her as "aggressively unattractive") but she can't make the leap to femme fatale, and she looks very silly when she runs. The idea of hard boiled Scheider amongst egghead intellectuals is one idea that is never explored, and regrettably he scores an unneccessary sidekick instead. Demme always casts his supporting players well and though they have practically nothing to do, it's fun to see Christopher Walken and John Glover. We also see Jacqueline Brooks, David Margulies, Max Wright and a fleshy Mandy Patinkin.
