Last Man Standing (2011 film)

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Last Man Standing
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Written by
  • Jolene Rice
  • Adam Beason
Directed by Ernest Dickerson
Starring
Composer Laura Karpman
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd
Producers
  • Catherine Bell
  • Scott Putman
Cinematography Steven Bernstein
Running time81 minutes
Production companies
DistributorLifetime Television
Release
Original network Lifetime
Picture format HDTV 1080i
Audio format Stereophonic
Original releaseJune 6, 2011 (2011-06-06)

Last Man Standing is a television film thriller directed by Ernest Dickerson. It was broadcast on Lifetime on June 6, 2011. [1]

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Plot

Housewife Abby Collins is a former Marine who served in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. She is notified by her old team member Jeremy Davis that another team member, Samuel Pratt, has committed suicide. After the funeral, Abby receives a video of her veterinarian husband Nick bound and gagged and is told that she is being watched. Rather than succumbing to fear, she leaves her daughter with the neighbor across the street and puts her military skills to use. Worried that her phone may be tapped, she unplugs her landline phone and splices it into the line at the telephone pole in order to call her friend Lincoln at the NSA to trace the source IP of the video message to the Pratt residence in Alexandria, Virginia. She investigates Samuel's locked basement office and finds files relating to Operation "Mongoose" in which the team members were to escort an Afghan chemist named Omar Taraki to testify against an Al-Qaeda leader in 2002. Taraki pleaded with Abby to let him be captured by Al-Qaeda instead of testifying, since he knew that his family would be killed in response, but when Abby refuses he tells her that when she has a family she will regret forcing him to testify.

Abby is instructed to go to a locker at Concord Station, which contains a keycard and a phone displaying a countdown timer with three and a half hours left. She steals an NTSB ID card from a worker and uses it to view security footage but cannot identify the man who put the phone in the locker. She is instructed to drive to Geographic Logistics and break into the CEO's office. She contacts Jeremy for help and they discover that Samuel Pratt was the CEO. Abby knocks out several guards and accesses Pratt's office with the keycard from the locker, then hacks into his computer. She is instructed to transfer millions of dollars from Pratt's bank account to a different account. The FBI in Quantico detect suspicious activity involving the Bank of Antigua but Abby shuts down their attempts to trace her. She get the password to the account from the kidnappers but instead of finalizing the transaction she changes the password and downloads all transaction data onto a flash drive. More security guards attempt to stop her but she evades them.

Abby drives to Jeremy's hotel to trade her car for his but she finds his car unlocked and is attacked by the man from the security video. She overpowers the man and takes Jeremy's car, then demands that the kidnappers send live video of Nick in exchange for the flash drive. On the video, Nick cryptically tells her, "Don't forget to feed Gatsby." She has Lincoln at the NSA trace the source of the video to a nearby warehouse but when the abductors send her the address where her daughter is staying Abby instead returns home and avoids the kidnappers while escaping with her neighbor and their daughters to a motel. There she realizes that Nick was giving her a clue about an RFID chip in his pocket that was intended to be implanted in a dog named Gatsby. Abby breaks into the pet clinic and tracks Gatsby's tag to a warehouse in Alexandria but when the FBI arrive she must take Agent Tyler hostage to buy herself more time. Tyler explains that Taraki was sold out to Al-Qaeda for money so Abby gives him the flash drive and tells him the address where Nick is being held then injects him with ketamine to knock him out before escaping through a ventilation shaft. A flashback reveals that Taraki's wife and son had been taken hostage after Pratt sold him out and were then killed by an explosion when Abby accidentally set of a trip wire while attempting to rescue them.

Abby drives to the warehouse's location and climbs a chain to sneak in a window then climbs back down a column. Her time runs out and a henchman is ordered to kill Nick but Abby stops him just in time. As she is freeing Nick, Jeremy appears and threatens to shoot her, believing that she still has the flash drive, but she overpowers him before Agent Tyler and the FBI arrive. The next night Abby writes a letter to Omar Taraki apologizing for her decision, then joins her daughter listening to a bedtime story from Nick.

Cast

Home video

The film was released on DVD on February 7, 2012. The DVD includes English as well as French subtitles. [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Radish, Christina (June 6, 2011). "Catherine Bell Exclusive Interview LAST MAN STANDING and ARMY WIVES". Collider. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
  2. ↑ https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-last-man-standing-catherine-bell/23208905
  3. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Standing-2011-Mow/dp/B0068MNNS0
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