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The Last Seduction
Why this pick
Matches Wild Things’ sunlit neo-noir sheen, erotic charge, and gleefully duplicitous character games, with tension built around shifting leverage rather than brute action.
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MOVIE1998 1h 48m USA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A popular Miami area high school guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo, is accused of Rape by two female students, a wealthy and popular girl named Kelly Van Ryan and a poor outcast named Suzie Toller. He hires lawyer Kenneth Bowden to defend him. At trial, Suzie admits that she and Kelly had made everything up to get revenge on Sam: Suzie for him failing to bail her out of jail on a minor drug charge and Kelly for him having an affair with her mother, Sandra. Kelly's mother is humiliated by the scandal, and Sam and Kenneth negotiate an $8.5 million settlement for defamation. In reality, Sam and the two girls were accomplices who used the trial as a way to get money from Kelly's wealthy family. To celebrate their success, Threesome.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Neve Campbell
Suzie Marie Toller
Denise Richards
Kelly Lanier Van Ryan
Matt Dillon
Sam Lombardo
Kevin Bacon
Sergeant Ray Duquette
Bill Murray
Kenneth Bowden
Robert Wagner
Tom Baxter
Theresa Russell
Sandra Van Ryan
Carrie Snodgress
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