We all harmlessly fantasize about doing certain things to all of those bullet point talking RWNJ's out there who come at us with the same old, tired prejudices and "conservative family values" swill.  In 1995 director Dan Rosen wrote a screenplay for a very small film called "The Last Supper."  The entire budget was obviously spent on casting as the film takes place (for the most part) in the dining room of a home shared by five ultra liberal roommates. There are a few extraneous scenes in their tomato garden and a couple of others at the police station.  The crux of the film has all of the hilarious dialogue and action taking place at the dinner table, or supper table if you prefer.  The premise is a bit twisted but the film does have redeeming social messages in it.  If you take this fantasy to reality, it may have consequences. I'm not sure how many of you have or have not seen the film, so I don't want to give anything away in the form of spoilers.  I will simply try my best to describe the witty and very dark premise.  Let's just say the film is part fantasy and partly the way that many of us feel in todays hate mongering and vitriolic division in American politics.
 
The film stars a young Cameron Diaz, the brilliant Courtney B. Vance, Ron Eldard, Anabeth Gish and little known, but brilliantly paranoid Jonathan Penner.  The film start out as Eldard's character Pete is picked up when his car breaks down by our first cameo appearance in Bill Paxton.  He invites Paxton in for the nightly ritual at the dinner table with his four roommates.  These five roommates are definitely card carrying ACLU members and Paxton is your stereotypical foul mouthed bigot.
 
He takes his bigoted talk a bit farther when the conversation heats up and holds a knife to Eldard/Pete's throat.  He threatens to rape the two women.  Doesn't exactly sound like a comedy yet, but that's to come.  In self-defense, Penner's character stabs Paxton, only after Paxton breaks Pete's arm.  The five have a hilarious conversation about what to do, call the police or bury the body.  The man did threaten all their lives.

A light switch turns on in each of their minds and they figure that Paxton's drifter character and his ideologies was better off dead.  So they bury him in the back yard and plant tomato vines in his up turned soil.  Thus begins the downward spiral of enticing a plethora of right wing characters to dinner and a plan to off them with arsenic laced wine.  They have two bottles on the table, the green bottle is the "safe wine", the blue bottle is the deathly arsenic concoction.  The use of the two bottles like the scales of justice is funny in and of itself. Each particular victim is a cameo by a then or now famous star in Mark Harmon, Jason Alexander, Charles Durning and others.  
 
Thrown in with all of this is a missing young girl who is being sought after by local Sheriff Alice Stanley played by the stoic former SNL alum Nora Dunn.  We find out a bit about some of the characters that have become victims of the crusading anti-right wing roommates and the paranoia and in-fighting grows as quickly as the body count.

Ron Perlman as right wing zealot author Norman Arbuthnot

(Perlman proves that his "Beauty and the Best" and two turns as Hellboy were no fluke.)

My favorite character in the entire movie is a Rush Limbaugh like talking head pundit played by the brilliant Ron Perlman.  The roommates only know him by seeing him spread vile words and rhetoric on the TV screen, much like Limbaugh, O'Reilly or Glenn Beck.  He of course eventually ends up in their dining room of terror and thus begins the climax of the film and one of the great monologues in dark comedy from the afforementioned Perlman.
 
I don't want to give away the ending but it does have a moral to it and it leaves a lot to the imagination.  It certainly goes without saying that thinking or fantasizing about such things is quite different than actually carrying them out.  I urge you to Netflix or rent this film.  Especially if you are of the left leaning mentality.  Despite the trailer and premise, it is not a film condoning violence and retribution over such things as differing ideologies.  It simply shows us why we should put things into perspective.  Very fitting now 14-years since the film was made.

SPOILER ALERT

I chose to include this seminal scene in case you are not convinced to see the film or not.  This is not the actual climax, but it is near the end of the film and does head to head take on the hypocrisy of politics by a group of liberals talking to one "supposed" right wing nut job coming clean, or is he?  It is indeed a powerful scene and Perlman was brilliant. If you are convinced you will like the film (which you will), don't watch.