Last Weekend is a 2014 American comedy/drama film starring Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, and Joseph Cross. The film premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 2, 2014. In May, the film was acquired for theatrical release and iTunes/VOD on August 29, 2014, by IFC/Sundance Selects. The film will also open the Provincetown International Film Festival on June 18, 2014. Last Weekend was filmed entirely on location in Lake Tahoe, California. It was the first feature film in thirteen years to be shot entirely in the area.
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Synopsis
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family on Labor Day weekend at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to fall apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Cast
Patricia Clarkson as Celia Green
Zachary Booth as Theo Green
Joseph Cross as Roger Green
Chris Mulkey as Malcolm Green
Devon Graye as Luke Caswell
Alexia Rasmussen as Vanessa Sanford
Rutina Wesley as Nora Finley-Perkins
Jayma Mays as Blake Curtis
Judith Light as Veronika Goss
Julio Oscar Mechoso as Hector Castillo
Mary Kay Place as Jeannie
Sheila Kelley as Vivian
Julie Carmen as Maria Castillo
Fran Kranz as Sean Oakes
Ray O'Brien as Paramedic
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 38% of 21 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.3/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 40 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
In his review in Slant Magazine, Drew Hunt gave it a 1/4 rating saying that "the film's attempt at political commentary amounts to a half-baked treatise on good governance in the face of tyranny and socioeconomic exploitation." In The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney said that it "is too muted in its catharsis and too overcrowded with superfluous characters to be fully satisfying, but the delicate central performance keeps it watchable."