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
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''Last Resort'' (1986 film), starring Charles Grodin—a comedy set on a tropical island
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''Last Resort'' (2000 film), a film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski—a young Russian woman abandoned in a British seaside town
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National Lampoon's Last Resort
''National Lampoon's Last Resort'' (also known as ''Last Resort'' or ''National Lampoon's Scuba School'') is a 1994 direct-to-video comedy film directed by Rafal Zielinski. The film stars Corey Feldman and Corey Haim as Sam and Dave, two friends w ...
'', a 1994 direct-to-video comedy set on a Caribbean island
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''The Last Resort'' (2018 film), 2018 documentary about Miami Beach
Gaming
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''Last Resort'' (video game), a 1992 video game for the Neo-Geo system
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''The Last Resort'' (adventure), for the role-playing game ''Marvel Super Heroes''
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9: The Last Resort'', a 1996 adventure computer game
Literature
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''The Last Resort'' (book), travel book about Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers
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''The Last Resort'' (Doctor Who), a 2003 novel based on the ''Doctor Who'' series
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''The Last Resort'' (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys), a 1990 novel for children and teenagers
Music
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''The Last Resort'' (album), a 2006 album by the Danish electronic musician Trentemøller
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"Last Resort" (song), a song by Papa Roach from their 2000 album ''Infest''
*"Last Resort", a song by Katatonia on the 1998 album ''
Discouraged Ones
''Discouraged Ones'' (stylized ''discøuraged ønes'') is the third full-length album by Katatonia, released on 27 April 1998. This is the only Katatonia album with bassist Micke Oretoft. It is also their last release with Jonas Renkse on drums; ...
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"The Last Resort" (Eagles song), a song by the Eagles from the 1976 album ''Hotel California''
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"The Last Resort" (T. Graham Brown song), 1988
* The Last Resort,
Oi!
Oi! is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads, and other disaffected working-class youth. The movement was p ...
band
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The Last Resort (EP), a 2022 EP by Midland
Television
Series
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''Last Resort'' (TV series), a 2012–13 American drama television series created by Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek
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''The Last Resort'' (1988 TV series), a 1988–89 Australian drama television series
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''The Last Resort'' (2017 TV series), a 2017 Australian reality television series
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''The Last Resort'' (American TV series), a 1979–80 American sitcom
* ''The Last Resort with
Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Stephen Ross (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He presented the BBC One chat show ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'' during the 2000s, hosted his own radio show on ...
'', 1987–90 British talk show
Episodes
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"Last Resort" (''House''), a 2008 episode of the fifth season of ''House''
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"Last Resort" (''Mercy Point''), a 1998 episode of ''Mercy Point''
* "Last Resort", a 1993 episode of the
first season of ''Sailor Moon''
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The Last Resort", a 1993 episode of ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog''
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The Last Resort", a 1999 episode of ''Sonic Underground''
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The Last Resort", a 2003 episode of the ninth episode of ''Sonic X''
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"The Last Resort" (''Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu''), a 2016 episode of ''Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu''
Other arts, entertainment, and media
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''The Last Resort'' (comics), a limited-series by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Giancarlo Caracuzzo
Other uses
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LastResort
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See also
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Drug of last resort
A drug of last resort (DoLR), also known as a heroic dose, is a pharmaceutical drug which is tried after all other drug options have failed to produce an adequate response in the patient. Drug resistance, such as antimicrobial resistance or antine ...
, a medicine used only when all other options are exhausted
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Employer of last resort
Employers of last resort (ELR) are employers in an Economic system, economy to whom workers go for jobs when no other jobs are available; the term is by analogy with "lender of last resort". The phrase is used in two senses:
* undesirable jobs, oft ...
, who hire workers without other options
*Gateway of last resort, another name for the
default route
In computer networking, the default route is a configuration of the Internet Protocol (IP) that establishes a forwarding rule for packets when no specific address of a next-hop host is available from the routing table or other routing mechanisms ...
in computer networks
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Last resort rule, part of the decision-making process in U.S. federal courts
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Lender of last resort
A lender of last resort (LOLR) is the institution in a financial system that acts as the provider of liquidity to a financial institution which finds itself unable to obtain sufficient liquidity in the interbank lending market when other facil ...
, an institution such as a central bank willing to extend credit when no one else will
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Letters of last resort
The letters of last resort are four identically-worded handwritten letters from the prime minister of the United Kingdom to the commanding officers of the four British ballistic missile submarines. They contain orders on what action to take if ...
, hand-written by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Operator of last resort
An operator of last resort is a business in the United Kingdom that operates a railway franchise, on behalf of the government, when a train operating company is no longer able to do so. , there are five such operators in England, Wales and Scotl ...
, 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
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