The Last Temptation of Christ overview
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Synopsis:
Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey) occurs as an hallucination experienced by Jesus as he suffers on the cross. This particular sequence was what infuriated the film's most rabid critics, but in fact it is just one of many iconoclastic musings to be found in the film and its source novel.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Studio: Cineplex Odeon Films, Universal
- Year: 1988
- Run Time: 164 minutes
- Country: Canada, USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama
- Filmed in: Color
