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''The Last Supper'' is a 1996 BlackComedy film directed by Stacy Title. It stars Creator/CameronDiaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner and Creator/CourtneyBVance as five liberal graduate school students who invite a string of right-wing extremists to dinner in order to murder them.

Not to be confused with the [[Art/TheLastSupper famous painting of the same name]].
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!!This film provides examples of:

* ADateWithRosiePalms: As the roommates get further into the murders, one of them seems to react to it as though it's an aphrodisiac, taking care of herself in bed while her boyfriend prepares a shower, and then deciding to jump in with him to take care of it together.
* AccidentalMurder: The first one, at least. [[MurderMakesYouCrazy It inspires the others.]]
* AnAesop: Murdering people for their beliefs and opinions, no matter how abhorrent they may seem to you, is unconscionable.
* AssholeVictim: How the characters justify the murders. [[spoiler:By the end they become some themselves.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Norman figures out the main characters' scheme and kills them via PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo. They've all become so corrupted at that point that their deaths might feel justified, but it comes immediately after they [[FaceHeelDoorSlam decide to change their ways]]. The final scene then implies that everything the group feared about Norman might be true, and that he might end up becoming president.]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality: While the far-rightists the group is pursuing are certainly dicks, it becomes increasingly clear that the students are being far worse than the extremists ever were. We even see their victims [[VillainDecay becoming less villainous]] (eventually killing a woman they consider [[FelonyMisdemeanor too restrictive about what books should be taught in schools.]])
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of out-of-control liberalism and political correctness, not to mention of extremism in general.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: "The dinners aren't even very good anymore!"
* TheFundamentalist: Among the victims is a homophobic reverend.
* GodwinsLaw: "You encounter a young painter by the name of Adolf Hitler."
* HeroAntagonist: The local sheriff becomes suspicious of the disappearances, and quickly figures out that this houseful of students is involved. [[spoiler: She's rather unceremoniously killed by Luke when he finds her snooping around where the bodies are buried, and has almost nothing to do with the final resolution of the plot.]]
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Opponents of LGBT rights are among the victims.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The ending implies the students are killed with their own poison wine via PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo on the part of Norman. Him switching the wine also means that if they were not [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]] the worst that would happen is they would all get a mouthful of vinegar.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: One of their victims appears to be reconsidering his positions... after he's already been poisoned. But then he brushes that off and lapses back into his hateful rhetoric (to the students' obvious relief).
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: As time goes on, the students kill people over increasingly trivial disagreements, eventually targeting a teenager because she promotes sexual abstinence.
* KillThemAll: [[spoiler:The final scenes imply that Ron Perlman's character switches the poison and kills all the grad students.]]
* TheLastTitle: The title.
* MalcolmXerox: One of the victims is a racist Nation of Islam member.
* MirroringFactions: The whole point of the film is pointing out how the students are being little better than the extremists they believe they're punishing, if not worse.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: The students believe that this is the best way to handle people who they consider morally or ideologically wrong.
* MurderMakesYouCrazy
* NastyParty: Every dinner guest is invited for the express purpose of killing him or her.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ron Perlman's outspoken, cigar-chomping, right-wing pundit is very reminiscent of Rush Limbaugh at the time of filming.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The main characters ended up seeing that they are no different than the people that they are poisoning but they ended up being poisoned by Norman when he figures out their actions.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Extremely cynical.
* StrawMisogynist: One of the victims is a misogynistic rape apologist.
* VillainProtagonist: The characters start out sympathetic, but some begin to slide into villainy pretty quickly. They are pursued by a HeroAntagonist.
* WellIntentionedExtremist [[HypocriticalHumor (who kill other Well-Intentioned Extremists)]]
* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim turns out to be a suspected child murderer, which helps to convince the group they were doing the right thing. This gets flipped when one of their victims is a teenage Christian girl who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they target for preaching abstinence]] (mercifully, one of them backs down and takes the girl home before the others can go through with it).
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[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_last_supper.jpg]]

''The Last Supper'' is a 1996 BlackComedy film directed by Stacy Title. It stars Creator/CameronDiaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner and Creator/CourtneyBVance as five liberal graduate school students who invite a string of right-wing extremists to dinner in order to murder them.

Not to be confused with the [[Art/TheLastSupper famous painting of the same name]].
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!!This film provides examples of:

* ADateWithRosiePalms: As the roommates get further into the murders, one of them seems to react to it as though it's an aphrodisiac, taking care of herself in bed while her boyfriend prepares a shower, and then deciding to jump in with him to take care of it together.
* AccidentalMurder: The first one, at least. [[MurderMakesYouCrazy It inspires the others.]]
* AnAesop: Murdering people for their beliefs and opinions, no matter how abhorrent they may seem to you, is unconscionable.
* AssholeVictim: How the characters justify the murders. [[spoiler:By the end they become some themselves.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Norman figures out the main characters' scheme and kills them via PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo. They've all become so corrupted at that point that their deaths might feel justified, but it comes immediately after they [[FaceHeelDoorSlam decide to change their ways]]. The final scene then implies that everything the group feared about Norman might be true, and that he might end up becoming president.]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality: While the far-rightists the group is pursuing are certainly dicks, it becomes increasingly clear that the students are being far worse than the extremists ever were. We even see their victims [[VillainDecay becoming less villainous]] (eventually killing a woman they consider [[FelonyMisdemeanor too restrictive about what books should be taught in schools.]])
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of out-of-control liberalism and political correctness, not to mention of extremism in general.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: "The dinners aren't even very good anymore!"
* TheFundamentalist: Among the victims is a homophobic reverend.
* GodwinsLaw: "You encounter a young painter by the name of Adolf Hitler."
* HeroAntagonist: The local sheriff becomes suspicious of the disappearances, and quickly figures out that this houseful of students is involved. [[spoiler: She's rather unceremoniously killed by Luke when he finds her snooping around where the bodies are buried, and has almost nothing to do with the final resolution of the plot.]]
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Opponents of LGBT rights are among the victims.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The ending implies the students are killed with their own poison wine via PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo on the part of Norman. Him switching the wine also means that if they were not [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]] the worst that would happen is they would all get a mouthful of vinegar.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: One of their victims appears to be reconsidering his positions... after he's already been poisoned. But then he brushes that off and lapses back into his hateful rhetoric (to the students' obvious relief).
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: As time goes on, the students kill people over increasingly trivial disagreements, eventually targeting a teenager because she promotes sexual abstinence.
* KillThemAll: [[spoiler:The final scenes imply that Ron Perlman's character switches the poison and kills all the grad students.]]
* TheLastTitle: The title.
* MalcolmXerox: One of the victims is a racist Nation of Islam member.
* MirroringFactions: The whole point of the film is pointing out how the students are being little better than the extremists they believe they're punishing, if not worse.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: The students believe that this is the best way to handle people who they consider morally or ideologically wrong.
* MurderMakesYouCrazy
* NastyParty: Every dinner guest is invited for the express purpose of killing him or her.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ron Perlman's outspoken, cigar-chomping, right-wing pundit is very reminiscent of Rush Limbaugh at the time of filming.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The main characters ended up seeing that they are no different than the people that they are poisoning but they ended up being poisoned by Norman when he figures out their actions.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Extremely cynical.
* StrawMisogynist: One of the victims is a misogynistic rape apologist.
* VillainProtagonist: The characters start out sympathetic, but some begin to slide into villainy pretty quickly. They are pursued by a HeroAntagonist.
* WellIntentionedExtremist [[HypocriticalHumor (who kill other Well-Intentioned Extremists)]]
* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim turns out to be a suspected child murderer, which helps to convince the group they were doing the right thing. This gets flipped when one of their victims is a teenage Christian girl who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they target for preaching abstinence]] (mercifully, one of them backs down and takes the girl home before the others can go through with it).
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad out-of-control liberalism and political correctness]], not to mention of extremism in general.

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* AnAesop: Murdering people for their beliefs and opinions, no matter how abhorrent they may seem to you, is unconscionable.



* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: As time goes on, the students kill people over increasingly trivial disagreements, eventually targeting a teenager because she promotes sexual abstinence.



* NastyParty: Every dinner guest is invited for the express purpose of killing him.

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* NastyParty: Every dinner guest is invited for the express purpose of killing him.him or her.



* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim turns out to be a suspected child murderer, which helps to convince the group they were doing the right thing. This gets flipped when one of their victims is a teenaged Christian girl who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they target for preaching abstinence]] (mercifully, one of them backs down and takes the girl home before the others can go through with it).

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* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim turns out to be a suspected child murderer, which helps to convince the group they were doing the right thing. This gets flipped when one of their victims is a teenaged teenage Christian girl who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they target for preaching abstinence]] (mercifully, one of them backs down and takes the girl home before the others can go through with it).
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* MirroringFactions: The whole point of the film is pointing out how the students are being little better than the extremists they believe they're punishing, if not worse.



* NotSoDifferent: The whole point of the film is pointing out how the students are being little better than the extremists they believe they're punishing, if not worse.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim turns out to be a suspected child murderer, which helps to convince the group they were doing the right thing. This gets flipped when one of their victims is a teenaged Christian girl who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they target for preaching abstinence]].

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* WouldHurtAChild: The first victim turns out to be a suspected child murderer, which helps to convince the group they were doing the right thing. This gets flipped when one of their victims is a teenaged Christian girl who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they target for preaching abstinence]].abstinence]] (mercifully, one of them backs down and takes the girl home before the others can go through with it).
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* NastyParty: Every dinner guest is invited for the express purpose of killing him.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: As the roommates get further into the murders, one of them seems to react to it as though it's an aphrodisiac, taking care of herself in bed while her boyfriend prepares a shower, and then deciding to jump in with him to take care of it together.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Norman figures out the main characters' scheme and kills them via PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo, but by that point they've gone so far over the line with their murderous actions that it's very hard to see it as a case of TheBadGuyWins.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Norman figures out the main characters' scheme and kills them via PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo, but by PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo. They've all become so corrupted at that point they've gone so far over the line with that their murderous actions deaths might feel justified, but it comes immediately after they [[FaceHeelDoorSlam decide to change their ways]]. The final scene then implies that it's very hard to see it as a case of TheBadGuyWins.everything the group feared about Norman might be true, and that he might end up becoming president.]]



* HeroAntagonist: A female police officer snoops around the group while investigating the murders. [[spoiler:They kill her, too.]]

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* HeroAntagonist: A female police officer snoops The local sheriff becomes suspicious of the disappearances, and quickly figures out that this houseful of students is involved. [[spoiler: She's rather unceremoniously killed by Luke when he finds her snooping around where the group while investigating bodies are buried, and has almost nothing to do with the murders. [[spoiler:They kill her, too.final resolution of the plot.]]



* WouldHurtAChild: One of the victims the students select is a teenaged Christian girl who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they target for believing in abstinence]]. Mercifully, one of them backs down and takes the kid home, but the profane threats the other students issue to the girl make it clear they were quite willing to kill her.

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* WouldHurtAChild: One of The first victim turns out to be a suspected child murderer, which helps to convince the group they were doing the right thing. This gets flipped when one of their victims the students select is a teenaged Christian girl who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope they target for believing in abstinence]]. Mercifully, one of them backs down and takes the kid home, but the profane threats the other students issue to the girl make it clear they were quite willing to kill her.
preaching abstinence]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The main characters ended up seeing that they are no different than the people that they are poisoning but they ended up being poisoned by Normon when he figures out their actions.

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The main characters ended up seeing that they are no different than the people that they are poisoning but they ended up being poisoned by Normon Norman when he figures out their actions.
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* JerkassFacade: Norman turns out to be a lot more reasonable in person than he is on TV. [[spoiler:Though the final shot implies that he's just a skilled manipulator, and may have been telling his hosts what they wanted to hear.]]
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* AssholeVictim: How the characters justify the murders.

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* AssholeVictim: How the characters justify the murders. [[spoiler:By the end they become some themselves.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Norman figures out the main characters' scheme and kills them via PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo, but by that point they've gone so far over the line with their murderous actions that it's hard to see it as a case of TheBadGuyWins.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Norman figures out the main characters' scheme and kills them via PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo, but by that point they've gone so far over the line with their murderous actions that it's very hard to see it as a case of TheBadGuyWins.]]

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