Last Embrace (1979)

Directed by

Jonathan Demme

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 82 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman sets out to kill the descendants of a group that enslaved her grandmother. She takes on the role of a biblical avenger.

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What happens

Last Embrace is a 1979 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, John Glover, Sam Levene, Charles Napier and Christopher Walken. Loosely based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom, it tells the story of a woman who takes the role similar to the biblical avenger Goel and kills the descendants of the Zwi Migdal, who enslaved her grandmother. The film was released by United Artists on May 4, 1979, and received mixed reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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