The Last Shot

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The Last Shot is a 2004 action comedy film starring Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Tim Blake Nelson, an uncredited Joan Cusack, Tony Shalhoub, Ray Liotta and Calista Flockhart. The movie is written and directed by Jeff Nathanson, who wrote The Terminal and Catch Me if You Can.

1 Plot
2 Reaction/Business
3 Trivia
4 Goofs
5 External link

[edit] Plot

FBI Agent Joe Devine (Baldwin) is assigned to take down the famous mob boss John Gotti. He decides to produce a movie as a sting operation. But what movie? Devine gets wannabe director Steven Schats (Broderick), as Schats is desperate to make a movie and will fall for anything. Soon the film Arizona is getting ready...except the film will never be made.

[edit] Reaction/Business

Critics liked the film, with a rating of 61 % on Rotten Tomatoes [1]. However, audiences did not, as the film was not marketed well and had no audience. The film only opened in 35 theaters limited, grossing only $463,730.

[edit] Trivia

The opening credits are shown on movie theater objects.
Inspired by a true story, as written in an article by Steve Fishman (What's Wrong With This Picture?)
Eric Roberts, Robert Evans, and Pat Morita, have uncredited cameos as themselves.

[edit] Goofs

While Emily French is in the restaurant she is smoking a cigarette. She puts it out to pee in a cup. After she finishes, her cigarette is back intact and she takes a drag of it.