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'The Last Supper'

Rated R

of fascists, homophobes, racists,
sexists, censors, puritans, fanat-
ic ideologues, and ultimately
et's face it: Black comedy is their main course, a television
enormously hard to pull off. demagogue, smartly portrayed
Besides Arsenic and Old by Ron Perlman.
ace, Dr. Strangelove and
Paulie (Annabeth Gish) is ini-
\ _ Harold and Maude, what black tially appalled by the group's de-
_)
/
comedies have had staying pow- cision to cover up their
er, a cult following? Which of transgression and continue in the
them end on a harmonic
same vein. But as time
note, not a discordant
passes, she finds herself
one?
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becoming a witting ac-
Heathers tried to ex-
complice in the conspira-
amine the petulant celebrity of cy and coincidentally finds herself
teen suicide. Eating Raoul's can- turned on by their deeds. Her
nibalistic humor was off-kilter amorous intoxication with both
and sick, and we won't even talk motive and method has a chill-
about director John Waters' ing side effect for her lover Marc
school of sardonic humor.
(Jonathon Penner).
Instead, for the moment, let's
In fact, all of them — the pris-
enjoy The Last Supper, a mor- sy Pete (Ron Eldard), tart-
dantly funny, black comedy tongued Jade (Cameron Diaz)
about liberals who act to make and cool-as-ice Luke (Courtney
the world a better place. From its B. Vance) — manifest charac-
opening credits, a series of wa- ter traits that poison and betray
tercolor washes that look like their own skewed political cor-
Cezanne meets Joan Miro as rectness.
drawn in the macabre style of the
The Last Supper's big-name
New Yorker's late illustrator cast (Jason Alexander, Charles
Charles Addams, The Last Sup- Darning, Nora Dunn, Mark Har-
per is awash with a splendid mon), more like a guest list for
sense of iconoclastic irony.
a dinner party, is aptly littered
Five smart-ass graduate stu- throughout the film. They are
dents who room together in a ambushed one by one, like shoot-
cozy, country cottage enjoy a ing fish in a barrel. Each one has
weekly Sunday dinner at which his or her delicious little de-
they solve all the troubles in the mented diatribe to lend to the
world through intellectual dis- repast. It's such fun to watch
cussion. When their ideals are them wriggle into their own trap.
sorely tested at mealtime by a
In fact, the film's subtlety in-
bigoted truck driver, marvelous- vites us to play along with this
ly malicious Bill Paxton, whose gleeful game. An empty seat
rantings suddenly imperil them, awaits us at the dinner table and
they are forced to dispatch him we get a vote. Should we or
in a most illiberal manner.
shouldn't we? Would we or
Their appetite for discourse wouldn't we?
sated temporarily by the em-
tO c)ct.
powerment of action, they soon
embark on a plan to rid the world
—Dick Rockwell

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Ron Eldard, Cameron Diaz, Courtney B. Vance, Annabeth Gish and Jonathan Penner
star in The Last Supper.

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