Movie Friday

This week, I am recommending a film that I happened to catch on an obscure movie channel that I cannot remember. I only saw the last 2/3 of the film, but it had me in hysterics.

The Last Supper has an all-star cast (Cameron Diaz, Jason Alexander, Ron Eldard, Courtney Vance, Bill Paxton, Nora Dunn and more) that would go on to a wide variety of roles in later years. It tells the story of a group of liberal college buddies that get together for dinner once a week and debate issues of the time. One week, an unexpected visitor to their group brings a different viewpoint to the table and ends up getting killed in the process. The friends then start to debate how the world would be changed if they took out some of their political and social opposites in an effort to rid the world of future hardships. They hatch a plan to have guests over to dinner each week and kill them. Each week, the mounds in the backyards grow and the tomato plants flourish.

A lot of reviews online said that you would only enjoy this film if you were a liberal. I'm not sure if this is true, but the movie struck me as being extremely funny and right on target. I'm not about to go out and kill conservative christians, but the idea that the world would be a better place with less of them has indeed crossed my mind once or twice. I'm quite confident that people on the other side feel the same way about us. In the end, the movie speaks to the need for all of us in the debate in a very dark and very very funny way.

Hope everyone has/had a great weekend. Cuidate.