Product: The Last Word (1995)
Rating: 4.0
A Movie that unwrites itself...
Although, I willingly admit, the beginning of this movie begins with some very weak dialogue, by the end of the movie, you begin to realize it's all a joke.Quick synopis: Timothy Hutton is a newspaper writer--writing columns about "scenes from everyday life." He publishes a book based on these columns, which his friend "doc" sends to a contact in hollywood. Meanwhile, Hutton's Character finds out that his true life stories got a guy killed by the local mob, and his wife leaves him. Hutton also meets a stripper who captivates him. From there we move to hollywood where Hutton needs to write a script with the edge his columns have, however, the studio wants his later work, including his article about the stripper, but she says he cannot. The tension builds.The movie ends up being made, and that is where you see it make fun of itself and its hollywood dialogue. Very entertaining. But there's also some serious stuff at that point as well--more details of the strippers past and her own personal testimony and wisdon gleened from her experiences.The juxtaposition of music and action in the movie is extremely well done. All together, a very good movie, even if the dialogue makes one want to cringe at times, at least it rights itself by the end.