Last Exit (film)

Infobox Film
name = Last Exit

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imdb_id = 0375909
writer = David Noel Bourkestars:
Gry Bay
Morten Vogelius
Peter Ottesen
Jette Philipsen
Nicholas Sherry
director = David Noel Bourke
producer = Last Exit Productions
distributor = Heretic Films (US/Canada)
Cult Movies Entertainment
* [(Germany, Switzerland, Belgium)
Midget Entertainment
(Denmark)
runtime = 97 mins
language = English and Danish
budget = 1500 Dollars/ 10,000 DKK

Movie Description

Last Exit is an independently produced feature film from Denmark, Europe.

A gritty, sexy, neo-noir psychological thriller shot on a shoestring-budget, the remarkably deft movie plumbs the depths of its dark themes with passionate, convincing performances from a relatively unknown cast.

Movie Plot

Nigel (Morten Vogelius), an incompetent criminal who flees his native England to Copenhagen in order to escape the loan sharks who are after him. He and his wife Maria (Jette Philipsen) shack up at a hotel, while each struggles separately with a drugs problem. Maria manages to get a straight job, and Nigel gets a gig storing illegal goods for a local crime boss known as the President (Peter Ottesen). Things heat up when Nigel falls for Tanya (Gry Bay), a hooker who works for the President, and their affair makes him ever more distant from Maria. The stage is set for a sex and violence-fueled descent into mayhem as the plot twists and secrets are revealed. Maria gets pregnant and Nigel starts to snap, and the only sane one seems to be Jimmy, Nigel's existential pot dealer. Dark humor and a driving pop-rock score complete a riveting, nightmarish scenario not for the faint of heart.

Movie Background

Written and directed by filmmaker "David Noel Bourke", his first feature film, for the paltry sum of 1500 dollars, it was shot guerilla style using one digital camera, with absolutley no crew and edited on a standard consumer editing suite.

"Last Exit" is quoted as being "the biggest bang for the buck in cinema history" and it's renowned for its moody and shocking storyline accompanied by an offbeat counterpoint soundtrack.

With its sometimes disturbing surreal subject matter and an in your face style of psychedelic sex and stark violence all mixed in with philosophical speeches, it has often divided both audiences and critics, who either love or detest it. It successfully found a strong cult audience in the USA, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Denmark where it's widely distributed on DVD.

External links and references

* [http://www.killerreviews.com/interview_David_Noel_Bourke.asp Interview with writer/director David Noel Bourke on Killer Reviews]
* [http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=interviews&Id=879 Film threat discusses the meaning of Last Exit with the director]

* [http://www.coldfusionvideo.com/l/lastexit.html ColdFusion Video Review - "biggest bang for the budget in cinema history".]
* [http://s-s-v.freehostia.com/98-04/ss_last_exit_04.html Screaming Stoner Video Review won "Stoner classic of the year award" in 2004]

* [http://www.kinocite.co.uk/15/1594.php Kinocite UK film review]
* [http://www.askewreviews.com/dvd/last_exit.htm Askew Reviews by Douglas A. Waltz Review]
* [http://www.emvg.net/reviews/lastexit.php Extraordinary Movie and Video Guide Review]
* [http://www.calgarymovies.com/DVD/reviews/LastExit.asp Canadian CalgaryMovies review]

* [http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2006/02/movie-review-last-exit.html Last Exit review on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV]
* [http://goodbadugly.coldfusionvideo.com/lastexit.html Last Exit review by The good, the bad and the ugly]
* [http://www.lastexitproductions.dk/lastexit.html Last Exit Official Site]
* [http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=72337 Last Exit "counterpoint" Soundtrack information from SoundtrackCollector]