Last Dance

Reviewed by: Joe Blenkle

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Cast: Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Peter Gallagher and Jack Thompson

Studio: Touchstone Pictures

Producer: Stephen Haft

Director: Bruce Beresford

Screenplay: Ron Koslow

MPAA Rating: R

Release Date: May 3, 1996

Running Time: 103 Minutes

	Last Dance photo by Zade Rosenthal - © 1996 Touchstone Pictures - All Rights Reserved

    Last Dance puts Sharon Stone in a role like we've never seen her in before.

    Stone plays death row inmate Cindy Liggett in Touchstone Pictures' Last Dance. Liggett is approaching her execution time and her case is up for review as per procedure by the Clemency Board.

    Liggett doesn't want the help of a young and eager attorney assigned to the case. Rick Hayes (Rob Morrow) is new on the job and attacks the case with the zeal of any newcomer.

    But after 12 years of waiting and many false hopes, Liggett has resigned herself to the inevitable and would rather wait for execution than cooperate with Hayes.

    Twelve years in prison have changed Liggett though. She is no longer the doped-up criminal who committed two brutal murders many years before. And unexpectedly, the unlikely pair find a relationship growing between them and Last Dance turns into an urgent race against time as Hayes tries everything he can do to get Liggett's execution postponed and clemency granted.

    Moviegoers are then treated to a well-performed and gut-wrenching story that will leave you hanging until the final moments of the film.

    I could have done without Stone's "southern accent" in the film, however. It did not fit her and was obviously put in as a vehicle to convey her impoverished southern roots - the reason she turned to crime in the first place.

    Still, this film is one of Stone's best efforts to date, and shows that she can be something other than the sexy blonde she has played in other films. Return to The Movie Corner