The Last Time (film)

Last updated

The Last Time
The Last Time (2006 film) poster.jpg
Movie poster
Directed byMichael Caleo
Written byMichael Caleo
Produced byMichael Caleo
Starring Michael Keaton
Brendan Fraser
Amber Valletta
Daniel Stern
Edited by Thom Noble
Music by Randy Edelman
Production
companies
Element Films
Lift Productions [1]
LA Squared [1]
Distributed by Destination Films [1] (through Sony Pictures Releasing) [1]
Release dates
  • October 5, 2006 (2006-10-05)(Greece) [2]
  • May 18, 2007 (2007-05-18)(United States)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Last Time is a 2006 American independent black comedy film starring Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser, Amber Valletta and Daniel Stern. It tells the story of a salesman and a beautiful woman who fall in love with each other and develop a relationship.

Contents

Plot

Ted Riker, top salesman in the New York office of business machine company Bineview, is assigned to train callow rookie salesman Jamie Bashant, who just moved to the area with his fiancé Belisa. Jamie struggles greatly and Ted tries to help him improve, to no avail.

Ted is introduced to Belisa, who is impressed by Ted's success and confident manner. They have sex, and do their best to keep this secret from Jamie. Ted and Belisa's relationship becomes a full-blown affair and he confesses that he has a failed love in his past, which affected him very deeply, leading to a career switch from college literature professor to hard-driving star salesman. Belisa does her best to comfort him. Later that night in bed after sex, the two discover a shared interest in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray .

Ted neglects work, causing his sales to drop and putting the company in jeopardy. However, his strengthening relationship with Belisa, who now promises to leave Jamie and marry Ted, is healing his bitterness. Jamie, showing no improvement, is fired just as Belisa breaks their engagement. He becomes suspicious that Belisa is cheating on him and nears a nervous breakdown. A concerned Belisa breaks up with Ted to take care of Jamie, planning their return to Ohio. A devastated Ted returns to work to find his manager desperate for him to make some sales. Belisa confronts Ted outside his office, telling him Jamie went back to Ohio, but she has decided to stay in New York to be with him.

The next day, Ted discovers that due to poor sales, Bineview's stock price tanked and was purchased by a competing firm. His office is being closed with dozens of personnel being fired. Despite this, Ted is happy and goes to Belisa's, which he finds empty except for evidence that Jamie and Belisa were working together to destroy his sales. Jamie and Belisa are seen at a party with the president of the competing firm. The bumbling Jamie is actually a ruthless leader of a team of double agents sent to infiltrate Bineview and target the top salesperson at each office as part of a strategy to weaken the company in preparation for this corporate takeover.

Jamie gloats about how he and Belisa were able to destroy Ted's sales performance. A disgusted Belisa leaves the party and goes to Ted's loft, but he is already gone so she goes to her home. As Ted is shown on the road to an unknown destination, she discovers a personal message from Ted in a volume of Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray which he has left behind for her. With the knowledge that Ted knows the truth, Belisa is left broken-hearted. The movie closes with a smiling and contented Ted returning to the job he truly loves, teaching.

Cast

Production

The Last Time was filmed in August 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and New York City, New York, on a budget of roughly $4,000,000. The film was released in theaters in May 2007.

Related Research Articles

<i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i> 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The novel-length version was published in April 1891.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diane Keaton</span> American film actress (born 1946)

Diane Keaton is an American actress. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and two Emmy Awards. She was honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 2007 and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.

<i>Manhattan Murder Mystery</i> 1993 film by Woody Allen

Manhattan Murder Mystery is a 1993 American black comedy mystery film directed by Woody Allen, which he wrote with Marshall Brickman, and starring Allen, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, and Diane Keaton. The film centers on a married couple's investigation of the death of their neighbor's wife.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amber Valletta</span> American supermodel and actress (born 1974)

Amber Evangeline Valletta is an American model and actress. She began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of 17 American Vogue covers in February 1993. During the 1990s, Valletta reached the status of supermodel, working as the face of Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Escada, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Valentino, Gucci and Versace, and signing multimillion-dollar cosmetics contracts with Calvin Klein and Elizabeth Arden. From 1995 to 1996, Valletta and her friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow hosted the MTV show House of Style.

As If is a British comedy-drama programme broadcast on E4 and later on Channel 4. There were 76 episodes across four series, the first broadcast on 22 January 2001 and the last on 31 July 2004.

<i>9½ Weeks</i> 1986 American romantic drama film

9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, and starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. Basinger portrays a New York City art gallery employee who has a brief yet intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street broker, played by Rourke. The screenplay by Sarah Kernochan, Zalman King and Patricia Louisianna Knop is adapted from the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day, under the pseudonym "Elizabeth McNeill".

<i>Clean and Sober</i> 1988 film directed by Glenn Gordon Caron

Clean and Sober is a 1988 American drama film directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and starring Michael Keaton as a real estate agent struggling with a substance abuse problem. This film was Keaton's first dramatic departure from comedies. The supporting cast includes Kathy Baker, M. Emmet Walsh, Morgan Freeman, Luca Bercovici and Tate Donovan.

<i>Rumor Has It</i> (film) 2005 American film

Rumor Has It is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine and Mark Ruffalo. The concept of the screenplay by Ted Griffin is that a woman learns that her mother and grandmother may be the inspiration for the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box office disappointment, grossing $88.9 million against its $70 million budget.

<i>Just Friends</i> 2005 film by Roger Kumble

Just Friends is a 2005 American Christmas romantic comedy film directed by Roger Kumble, written by Adam 'Tex' Davis and starring Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein and Christopher Marquette. The plot focuses on a formerly obese high school student (Reynolds) who attempts to free himself from the friend zone after reconnecting with his best friend (Smart), with whom he is in love while visiting his hometown for Christmas.

<i>In the Good Old Summertime</i> 1949 film by Buster Keaton, Robert Zigler Leonard

In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It stars Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, and Buster Keaton in his first featured film role at MGM since 1933.

<i>Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise</i> 2001 British television film

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise is a television film directed by Danny Boyle released and produced by BBC in association with Destiny Films for BBC Two on 30 September 2001. A satire on door-to-door salesmen, it stars Timothy Spall, who was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance. The promotion material described the film as a cross between Death of a Salesman and Glengarry Glen Ross. The film was created in the aftermath of the lackluster performances of Boyle's preceding films, A Life Less Ordinary and The Beach.Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise was a smaller budget and a return to more successful stylings and themes.

<i>Dead Silence</i> 2007 film by James Wan

Dead Silence is a 2007 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell. The film stars Ryan Kwanten as Jamie Ashen, a young widower returning to his hometown to search for answers to his wife's death. It also stars Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, and Bob Gunton.

<i>Forever Amber</i> (film) 1947 film

Forever Amber is a 1947 American romantic historical drama film starring Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde. It was based on the book of the same title by Kathleen Winsor. It also starred Richard Greene, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, and Jessica Tandy.

<i>Love & Other Drugs</i> 2010 film by Edward Zwick

Love & Other Drugs is a 2010 American romantic comedy drama film directed, produced and co-written by Edward Zwick and based on Jamie Reidy's 2005 non-fiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad and Gabriel Macht, the film tells the story of a medicine peddler in 1990s Pittsburgh who starts a relationship with a young woman suffering from an illness that leads to Parkinson's disease.

<i>Dorian Gray</i> (1970 film) 1970 film

Dorian Gray, also known as The Sins of Dorian Gray and The Secret of Dorian Gray, is a 1970 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Helmut Berger.

Brendan Price is a British theatre, film and television actor. He graduated, winning the prize for outstanding dialect work and began his career in the regional theatres of England. He worked in a number of the major theatres, playing a diverse range of parts in the plays of Anton Chekhov, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, and in those of many other writers, both classical and modern.

<i>The Change-Up</i> 2011 film by David Dobkin

The Change-Up is a 2011 American fantasy romantic comedy produced and directed by David Dobkin, and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The film stars Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman as Mitch Planko and Dave Lockwood, two best friends living in Atlanta who “switch bodies” after urinating into the fountain to wish they had each other's lives. The film was released on August 5, 2011, in North America by Universal Pictures. It received negative reviews from critics.

<i>Love the Coopers</i> 2015 American Christmas comedy-drama film by Jessie Nelson

Love the Coopers is a 2015 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Jessie Nelson and written by Steven Rogers. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Diane Keaton, Jake Lacy, Anthony Mackie, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Marisa Tomei, Timothée Chalamet, Olivia Wilde and features the voice of Steve Martin, and follows a dysfunctional family who reunites for the holidays.

Pact with the Devil, known in Canada as Dorian, is a 2004 Canadian-British drama film directed by Allan A. Goldstein and starring Ethan Erickson, Malcolm McDowell and Christoph Waltz. It is a modern retelling of the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was filmed in 2002 in Canada.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The Last Time (2006)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films . Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. ↑ "Cine.gr - Τανίες The Last Time - Η Τέλεια Παγίδα". www.cine.gr. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.