The Last Supper (1995) on Netflix
Five liberal graduate students in Iowa host Sunday dinners for open-minded debate. Pete brings home Zack, the truck driver who rescued him, and the guest's racism turns dinner into a fight.
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Plot summary
Jude, Pete, Paulie, Marc and Luke are graduate students sharing a house in Iowa. Marc paints, Pete studies law, Paulie social work, Jude psychology and Luke political science. For a year the five have held a Sunday dinner, inviting a friend over for open-minded talk. On a dark and stormy night Pete, whose car broke down, comes home with the truck driver who helped him, Zack, instead of the friend he meant to bring. Invited to stay, Zack proves to be a neo-Nazi who denies the Holocaust, is racist and xenophobic, and praises Adolf Hitler. A tense argument follows at the table, where Marc is Jewish and Luke is black.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Supper (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Beau Bridges was originally offered the role of pundit Norman Arbuthnot but turned it down; Ron Perlman was so eager to play him that he threatened to end his friendship with director Stacy Title if he did not get the part.
- Filmmakers wanted Cameron Diaz to play the innocent, pretty Paulie, but Diaz asked for a bigger challenge and was cast instead as the vocal, opinionated, ruthless Jude.
- Director Stacy Title shot the entire film in just 18 days, and actor Bill Paxton filmed his cameo during a weekend off from making Apollo 13.
