The Last Hurrah :: movie review 2009 The Last Hurrah is in my opinion the final evolution of the college party movie, a group of philosophy majors have one last graduation party filled with sarcastic comedic introspection. This film has Carl Jung as a punch line, come on how you can argue with Carl Jung quotes, not Fredrick Nietzsche or Freud its Jung and its very funny. This is a high brow, lofty script with quotes and banter from many famous philosophers and their great truths and untruths that keep pouring out from this small film like the tap on a keg of beer at the usual collage festivities. This is their Last Hurrah and this entire ensemble cast has some great lines that would to be expected as the characters try to outdo each other as only a group of philosophy majors can.

This film is shot like a play with the camera floating around from different conversations with some great well placed music. My favorite line in the film is from Nicole (Valerie Azlynn) she says “Civilization would break down if woman threw themselves at men, if we want you guys to keep building bridges, and highways, and …septic tanks we need to keep are legs closed some of the time…”

Zack Bennett (Will) ,David Wachs (Jason), Valerie Azlynn (Nicole), give excellent performances and Jonathan Stokes story is really well written. It’s nice to take a break from writing about 100 million dollar productions and write about a true independent film that uses well written dialog to propel the plot line. I always as a movie critic I ask two questions, should this film have been made and do I care about that characters and what happens to them as the plot progresses. The answer is yes to both of these questions and I got more laughs out of this little film than I did out of other comedies that spent more on Kraft services than this independent film cost to make.

Director :: Jonathan Stokes

Writer :: Jonathan Stokes Producers :: Chuck Derosa, Richie Molyneux

Executive Producer :: Anthony Vasto


Starring :: Valerie Azlynn , Ravi Patel , Kate Micucci ,Randy Wayne, Gary Cairns II , Alicia Ziegler , Sarah Scott, David Wachs, Zack Bennett, Martin Kelly, Heidi Johanningmeier, Cherish Hamutoff, Steve Fite, Shawnda Thomas, Jon Weinberg


Full Cast and Crew information Movie's official website :: LINKS http://imdb.com/title/tt1078904/