Last Embrace

Last Embrace (1979)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 41% of users liked it
    (487 ratings)

In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a… More

R, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed By
Jonathan Demme
Written By
David Shaber
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
May 4, 1979 Wide
On DVD
Feb 1, 1993

Critic Reviews

  • Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

    Demme puts nothing of himself into these paranoid shenanigans -- the movie is all too transparently his attempt to do something bankable.

  • Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Belabored imitation Hitchcock

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Last Embrace is directed by Jonathan Demme and it packs a real wallop of suspense.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stephen M


    This is a splendid little Hitchcockian thriller from Jonathan Demme. Roy Scheider plays Harry Hannan, a government agent recovering from a nervous breakdown after losing his wife in a botched attempt on his life. Fearful of further assassination attempts after being labelled a… More

  • xGary X


    A tackily directed 70s forerunner to the likes of Basic Instinct, this overly melodramatic tale of a burnt out secret agent who recieves a calling card from a serial killer is often unconvincing, and often just plain silly.

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