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Good films come in small packages.
Last Resort , a poignant Sad Sack tale of a young Russian mother and her son cast adrift on foreign shores. The package is The Shooting Gallery's third installment of independent films collectively identified The Shooting Gallery Series at Loew's Entertainment, now popping up in seventeen cities for two week runs with this British entry as the first of six pictures this Spring. Hours, then days later, she and her son Artiom are detained by British authorities when she inadvertently asks for political asylum. And then her troubles really begin. They are shipped off to a God forsaken bureaucratic wasteland, the dilapidated seaside compound housing project cum concentration camp Stonehaven, surrounded by guard dogs, a bank of video cameras, barbed wire, and a sense of doom.