History Film / TheLastSeduction

->''"Well I'm sorry the law doesn't make it easier for you to steal and deal drugs, Bridget."''

->''"Could you leave? Please?"''
->''"I haven't finished charming you yet."''
->''"You haven't started."''

->''"You still a lawyer, Frank?"''
->''"Yeah. You still a self-serving bitch?"''

->''' Bridget Gregory''' "Not anymore."\\
->''' Frank Griffith''' "How silly of me to ask."

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Inverted. While Bridget's foul mouth and demeanor lead Mike's drinking buddies to consider Bridget simply "city trash," That, and the fact that she looks like she's going places far beyond Beston are what draw Mike to Bridget like a moth to a flame. As she strips off her mask further and further, and her exploits get more and more criminal, he's too enamored with her to flee.
* AmoralAttorney: Bridget's lawyer, played by Creator/JTWalsh. He knows exactly who she is, and isn't bothered by it in the slightest, but in fairness, she really doesn't ask him to do anything that is personally immoral to him, nor ask him to perform an immoral act for her.
->''"Can he afford a good lawyer?"''
->''"Not anymore."''
->''"How silly of me to ask."''

** Also, when one of Mike's buddies tries to claim Bridget slept with him, Mike beats the crap out of him, and the buddy quickly admits that he TRIED to hit on her, and she immediately shot him down.

* Bridget, [[spoiler: finally revealing the secret of why Mike divorced his wife Trish.
->''"You married a man you farm f***"'' And Mike goes off the deep end.]]

* Wham Line: Frank, when he's been filled in by Clay about how Bridget stole the money he made from selling drugs, and that he's being assaulted by mob types who want payment. Frank practically breaks the fourth wall and asks what many in the audience are probably thinking.

->''"You married a man you farm f***"'']]

* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: Bridget calls a lawyer to find out how she can get can spend her ill-gotten gains without her husband laying claim to any of it.

* CondescendingCompassion: Frank helps Bridget with the legalities around stealing the $750,000 of drug money and keeping it away from Clay, but he lets lose a number of zingers to remind her of how evil she's being about the situation.

** Clay also. When Mike comes to rob him, using dialogue (suggested by Bridget) that he memorized in advance, Clay snarks, "Did you read a book on this?"

** Frank Griffith repeatedly during Bridget's phone calls to him seeking legal advice so she can not only divorce Clay, but keep the $750,000 to herself.

->''"Not anymore"''

* AndStarring: Creator/BillPullman as Clay Gregory.

->''"Can he afford a good lawyer?"''
->''"Not anymore."''
->''"How silly of me to ask."''

* RootingForTheEmpire: Lets face it. [[spoiler: Everyone in the audience eventually wants Bridget to win.]]

* IChoseToStay: After fleeing Clay, Bridget basically stops in Beston for gas and a drink, and then decides to use Mike and make it an overnight stay. The next day, after Frank warns her that her current plan to visit a friend in Chicago is exactly what Clay would expect her to do, and exactly where he'll look for her, she decides to camp out in Beston for awhile, and even gets a house and a job as further cover. The plan works for awhile.

* Forshadowing: Any hopes the audience may have of Bridget's character having a HeelFaceTurn are pretty much ruled out when she's on the phone to Frank, helps herself to a pie in Mike's fridge, doesn't like it, and puts her cigarette out on it. The camera shows us that the pie has a cutesy note from Mike's grandmother on it. She used a pie Mike's grandma baked with love as an ashtray.

* Foreshadowing: Any hopes the audience may have of Bridget's character having a HeelFaceTurn are pretty much ruled out when she's on the phone to Frank, helps herself to a pie in Mike's fridge, doesn't like it, and puts her cigarette out on it. The camera shows us that the pie has a cutesy note from Mike's grandmother on it. She used a pie Mike's grandma baked with love as an ashtray.

* CompleteMonster: Bridget is arguably this. She uses every person she meets, thinks entirely of herself, and has no sympathy for whoever she steps on to get her way, or what will happen to them after she gets what she wants and leaves. A blink and you'll miss it moment happens the day after she first spends the night with Mike. While on the phone to Frank, she helps herself to a pie Mike is keeping in the fridge, takes a bite, doesn't like it, and puts out her cigarette in it. The kicker? The pie has a sweet note from Mike's grandma on it.

* AllWomenWantBadBoys: Inverted. While Bridget's foul mouth and demeanor lead Mike's drinking buddies to consider Bridget simply "city trash," That, and the fact that she looks like she's going places far beyond Beston are what draw Mike to Bridget like a moth to a flame. As she strips off her mask further and further, and her exploits get more and more criminal, he's too enamored with her to flee.

* KarmaHoudini: By the last scene, life without parole is the absolute best [[spoiler: Mike, busted for murder and rape,]] can hope for, while [[spoiler: Bridget gets off scot-free]] -- and, apparently, independently wealthy to boot.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For Bridget at her first job, She likes to command and she is foul-mouthed.

** She also pulls this [[spoiler: in her interview with the supervisor at Mike's company, claiming she's on the run from an abusive spouse, so she can get a job under her assumed name and avoid leaving a paper trail for Clay to follow to find out where she is. The supervisor thoughtfully agrees to pay her under the table as well, to further remove any trail for Clay to follow.]]

* HotterAndSexier: The film is basically what Film/DoubleIndeminity and Film/BodyHeat would have been if they'd had the femme fatales be the leads, rather than the male patsy, and it definitely is racier in the scenes between Bridget and Mike than what we see in the other two films.

* ADadlyAffair: Subverted. [[spoiler: While Bridget is sleeping with Mike to ultimately twist him into unwittingly murdering her husband, Mike is never an equal partner in the scheme and has no idea the man Bridget is trying to get him to kill is Bridget's husband until Clay shows him their wedding photo.]]

* KarmaHoudini: By the last scene, life without parole is the absolute best [[spoiler: Mike, busted for murder and rape,]] can hope for, while [[spoiler: Bridget gets off scot-free]] -- and, apparently, independently wealthy to boot.

* ShoutOut: When she calls the local police [[spoiler: and claims that Clay's local PI exposed himself to her child, she gives her name as Mrs. Neff, the same last name as the protagonist of Film/DoubleIndemnity

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

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Harlan is the first character to die.

** Clay also. When Mike comes to rob him, using dialogue (suggested by Bridget) that he memorised in advance, Clay snarks, "Did you read a book on this?"
* DeconstructedTrope: As the title implies, the film was intended to be this for the typical FilmNoir FemmeFatale plot, illustrating just how heartless a woman would have to be to seduce a man into murdering a complete stranger, and how dumb the man would have to be to actually fall for it.

* DomesticAbuse: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Clay slaps Bridget when she taunts him, but feels sorry soon after. Bridget, however, harbors a ''huge'' grudge.

* JustOneLittleMistake: Subverted when the imprisoned Mike realizes that Bridget made one mistake in her master plan involving a name tag on a mailbox. [[spoiler: The film ends with Bridget slipping the tag out of the mailbox and driving off in a very pricey car.]]

* LineOfSightAlias: PlayedWith. Bridget comes up with her SdrawkcabAlias herself, but Clay figures it out after an accidental glance at a poster of New York in the mirror. (New York = Wendy Kroy backwards.)