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Last Call (2002 film)

Last Call is a 2002 biographical drama television film about the final years of American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written and directed by Henry Bromell, the film is based on the 1985 memoir Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald by Frances Kroll Ring. It stars Jeremy Irons as Fitzgerald, Neve Campbell as Ring, a young secretary who helps him with The Last Tycoon, and Sissy Spacek as his wife, Zelda.

An international co-production between the United States and Canada, the film premiered on Showtime on May 25, 2002. At the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards, it received two nominations: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (for Spacek) and Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore). Bromell was nominated for at the 55th Writers Guild of America Awards.

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Laura Fries of Variety called it "a flawed but revealing snapshot of the novelist in the twilight of his life." John Leonard of New York Magazine gave the film a positive review, "I have to say that Irons is an excellent, if an unlikely, Fitzgerald, with just the right amount of frayed charm and damaged curiosity."

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