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Release Date: 1971

Cast: Don Gordon, Daniel Ades, Dennis Hopper, Julie Adams, Donna Baccala, Peter Fonda, Stella Garcia, Henry Jaglom, John Alderman, Sylvia Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Michelle Phillips ...MORE

Cast: Don Gordon, Daniel Ades, Dennis Hopper, Julie Adams, Donna Baccala, Peter Fonda, Stella Garcia, Henry Jaglom, John Alderman, Sylvia Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Michelle Phillips, Roy Engel ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Adventure Drama, New Hollywood, Satire, Drama Film

The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips. Production of the movie, which cost $1 million, took place in the film's major setting, Peru. Kansas (Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed in a stunt, Kansas decides to quit the movie business and stay in Peru with a local... MORE

The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips. Production of the movie, which cost $1 million, took place in the film's major setting, Peru. Kansas (Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed in a stunt, Kansas decides to quit the movie business and stay in Peru with a local woman. Kansas thinks he has found paradise, but is soon called in to help in a bizarre incident: the Peruvian natives are "filming" their own movie with "cameras" made of sticks, and acting out real western movie violence, as they don't understand movie fakery. The film touches on the ideas of fiction versus reality, especially in regards to cinema. The movie is presented in a way that challenges the viewer's traditional cinematic understanding of storytelling, by presenting the story in a non-chronological fashion, and by including several devices typically only seen behind the scenes of filmmaking LESS