The Last Seduction

The Last Seduction is a film released to theaters in 1994 that stars Linda Fiorentino as the femme fatale, Peter Berg as a small-town man who's one night affair turns into more than he wanted and Bill Pullman as Fiorentino's husband who's chasing her and running from loan sharks at the same time. The movie was directed by John Dahl. Fiorentino was considered a possible Oscar nominee for the film, but because the film was shown on cable television before it was released to theaters in 1994, it was disqualified. The movie was distributed by October Films.

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1994 - Linda Fiorentino - Femme fatale - Peter Berg - Bill Pullman - Loan shark - John Dahl - Oscar - October Films

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The Last Seduction is a complicated story about a woman, Bridget Gregory, who steals a bag of money ($700,000) from her drug-dealing husband Clay. Bridget drives off headed to Chicago when she happens to stop at a small town and meets Mike, a man who recently split with his wife under mysterious circumstances. The two immediately hook up. Bridget is just looking for sex while Mike is trying to find a way out of the small town.

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Meanwhile, drug dealer Clay gets his thumb broken by the loan shark who is looking for repayment for his loan. Clay, with the help of a private detective, franticly searchs for his plotting wife and the money. Back in the small town Bridget changes her name and gets a job at the same insurance company Mike works for. When Mike tells her how she can read credit reports to find out if a man is cheating on his wife, Bridget hatches a plan to start selling murders to upset wives. First, she talks Mike into trying to kill her drug dealing husband under the lie that he?s a cheating wife beater.

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