Last Resort

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A last resort is something that is used when all other options have been exhausted.

Last Resort or The Last Resort may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Last Resort (1986 film), starring Charles Grodin—a comedy set on a tropical island
• Last Resort (2000 film), a film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski—a young Russian woman abandoned in a British seaside town
• National Lampoon's Last Resort, a 1994 direct-to-video comedy set on a Caribbean island
• The Last Resort (2018 film), 2018 documentary about Miami Beach

Gaming

• Last Resort (video game), a 1992 video game for the Neo-Geo system
• The Last Resort (adventure), for the role-playing game Marvel Super Heroes
• 9: The Last Resort, a 1996 adventure computer game

Literature

• The Last Resort (book), travel book about Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers
• The Last Resort (Doctor Who), a 2003 novel based on the Doctor Who series
• The Last Resort (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys), a 1990 novel for children and teenagers

Music

• The Last Resort (album), a 2006 album by the Danish electronic musician Trentemøller
• "Last Resort" (song), a song by Papa Roach from their 2000 album Infest
• "Last Resort", a 2019 song by Ayase.
• "Last Resort", a song by Katatonia on the 1998 album Discouraged Ones
• "The Last Resort" (Eagles song), a song by the Eagles from the 1976 album Hotel California
• "The Last Resort" (T. Graham Brown song), 1988
• The Last Resort, Oi! band
• The Last Resort (EP), a 2022 EP by Midland

Television

Series

• Last Resort (TV series), a 2012–13 American drama television series created by Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek
• The Last Resort (1988 TV series), a 1988–89 Australian drama television series
• The Last Resort (2017 TV series), a 2017 Australian reality television series
• The Last Resort (American TV series), a 1979–80 American sitcom
• The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross, 1987–90 British talk show

Episodes

• "Last Resort" (House), a 2008 episode of the fifth season of House
• "Last Resort" (Mercy Point), a 1998 episode of Mercy Point
• "Last Resort", a 1993 episode of the first season of Sailor Moon
• "The Last Resort", a 1993 episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
• "The Last Resort", a 1999 episode of Sonic Underground
• "The Last Resort", a 2003 episode of the ninth episode of Sonic X
• "The Last Resort" (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu), a 2016 episode of Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• The Last Resort (comics), a limited-series by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Giancarlo Caracuzzo

Other uses

• LastResort, a font created by Apple, Inc., used to display Unicode text

See also

• Drug of last resort, a medicine used only when all other options are exhausted
• Employer of last resort, who hire workers without other options
• Gateway of last resort, another name for the default route in computer networks
• Last resort rule, part of the decision-making process in U.S. federal courts
• Lender of last resort, an institution such as a central bank willing to extend credit when no one else will
• Letters of last resort, hand-written by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Operator of last resort, a type of government-backed or owned company in the United Kingdom that operates a railway franchise in the event that a train operating company is no longer able to do so