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The Last Embrace

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The Last Embrace
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R,1hr 42min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Release:
1979
Director:
Jonathan Demme
Starring:
Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken  ...more
Synopsis: In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a catatonic collapse after the murder of his wife. After Harry's recovery, he is back on the job, but he can't figure out whether he is suffering from self-induced paranoia or if his former employers want to kill ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
Jonathan Demme's first big-budget studio production is an interesting precursor to his 1991 success The Silence of the Lambs. The style of the film is deliberately Hitchcockian -- right down to the bell-tower reference to Vertigo (1958) -- but, unlike lesser copy-cats, Demme has a unique viewpoint under the homage. His characters are complex people with realistic moral ambiguities, and Roy Scheider, ... Full Review
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Roy Scheider
Harry Hannan
Janet Margolin
Ellie Fabian
Christopher Walken
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