History Film / TheLastSeduction

* LineOfSightName: Bridget comes up with the alias Wendy Kroy after gazing at a poster of New York in the mirror.

* DomesticAbuser: Clay with Bridget

* MiscarriageOfJustice: [[spoiler:The ending implies that Mike will spend the rest of his life in prison for Bridget's crimes.]]

* TheSociopath: Bridget could be a textbook case study. She lies, manipulates, and discards others for her own gain, expresses no remorse for any of her actions -- including at least one murder and ruining another man's life -- requires stimulation by mentally toying with people out of boredom or rather shamelessly using them to get off, and the only time she ever discusses morality she seems to regard it as some alien concept.

Bridget Gregory is the bored wife of Clay, a drug dealer. One day, she swipes a bag of money from him and skips town to Chicago. On her way there, she meets Mike, a divorced man who immediately falls for her. When Clay sends goons to track down his wife and stolen cash, Bridget decides to use Mike in an elaborate scheme to get her past off her back.

* AssholeVictim: Clay's abusiveness doesn't exactly make the viewer ''help'' but root for Bridget...a little.
* BerserkButton: For Mike, any mentions of his ex-wife Trish, since it turns out that she is [[spoiler: actually a he.]]

* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Bridget invokes this to her husband's (black) private investigator to distract him while she's driving the car they're in. He blows her off at first but is eventually tempted to show her, [[spoiler:taking off his seatbelt to do so.This results in his death when she intentionally crashes the car.]]

%%* ConArtist: Bridget
* CulturedBadass: Bridget has a high powered job, is well qualified and is mentioned to enjoy the theatre.

* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:Bridget puts a pretty good one on Mike.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Mike is busted for murder and rape, while Bridget goes off scot-free.]]

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Mike and Bridget have sex in a car and against the wire fence outside a bar. Deleted scenes show them doing it on the floor and in a school gym they broke into
* ManipulativeBastard: Bridget will stop at ''nothing'' to escape Clay, and then have her revenge on him, and then get away with it. Even to the point of sweet-talking Mike into helping her in a massive phone scam (if it ''is'' a scam...)--and eventually, [[spoiler: into ruining Mike's life completely.]]

%%* ThePerfectCrime

%%* PrivateDetective: Harlan and Bert.
%%* SmokingIsCool
* TheSociopath: Bridget shows pretty much all of the classic traits. She lies, manipulates, and discards others for her own gain, expresses no remorse for any of her actions -- including at least one murder and ruining another man's life -- requires stimulation by mentally toying with people out of boredom or rather shamelessly using them to get off, and the only time she ever discusses morality she seems to regard it as some alien concept.

%%* VillainProtagonist: Bridget
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Bridget pulls this first at the hospital with the cop and then in the final scene to put the rap on Mike.]]

* WomanInBlack: Bridgets favorite color.

A 1994 Neo-Noir film directed by John Dahl, ''The Last Seduction'' starred Linda Fiorentino and Peter Berg. It’s perhaps best known for being disqualified from Oscar consideration that year due to it showing on {{Creator/HBO}} just before premiering in theaters.

* AmoralAttorney: Bridget's lawyer, played by the original HeyItsThatGuy, J.T. Walsh.

* TheSociopath: Bridget shows pretty much all of the classic traits. She lies, manipulates, and discards others for her own gain, expresses no remorse for any of her actions-including at least one murder and ruining another man's life-requires stimulation by mentally toying with people out of boredom or rather shamelessly using them to get off, and the only time she ever discusses morality she seems to regard it as some alien concept.
* StepfordSuburbia: Bridget stays in one of these when she's on-the-run.

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A 1994 Neo-Noir film directed by John Dahl, ''The Last Seduction'' starred Linda Fiorentino and Peter Berg. It’s perhaps best known for being disqualified from Oscar consideration that year due to it showing on {{HBO}} just before premiering in theaters.

* Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Mike and Bridget have sex in a car and against the wire fence outside a bar. Deleted scenes show them doing it on the floor and in a school gym they broke into

%%* ManipulativeBastard: Bridget.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Clay]] who is the victim of money he got selling drugs stolen.

%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Clay]]

%%* FilmNoir

%%* TheUnfairSex: Completely and utterly averted.
%%* TheVamp: Bridget

* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: A deleted scene has Bridget dressing up as a cheerleader for Mike

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Clay]]

* ConArtist: Bridget

* FilmNoir

* ManipulativeBastard: Bridget

* ThePerfectCrime

* PrivateDetective: Harlan and Bert.
* SmokingIsCool
* TheUnfairSex: Completely and utterly averted.
* TheVamp: Bridget
* VillainProtagonist: '''Bridget'''
* WomanInBlack: Bridgets favorite color

* XanatosSpeedChess: Bridget is a grandmaster.

* FemmeFatale: Deconstructed with Bridget. See above.

* BadassCultured: Bridget has a high powered job, is well qualified and is mentioned to enjoy the theatre

* ConArtist: Bridget.

* Badass: Bridget

* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Bridget pulls this in the final scene to put the rap on Mike.]]

* FemmeFatale: Bridget

* AwardSnub: It was so expected that Linda Fiorentino would get an Oscar nomination for her performance, that the producers down-and-out ''sued'' the Academy for disqualifying the film due to its debut on cable prior to its theatrical release.