Career
The film premiered as an Home Box Office movie before going on shortly after to art house success. Barancik received critical acclaim for his screenplay for The Last Seduction, James Berardinelli called his dialogue "scintillating, often hilarious, and occasionally insightful", while Variety said his development of the narrative "is very skillful and original". The Washington Post claimed it was "a viciously funny first screenplay" from Barancik, and Kim Newman of Empire called his screenplay "superb".
Barancik worked steadily in the industry but with little to show for it until receiving shared screenplay cr for 2002"s Number Good Deed.
He also received shared story cr for 2005"s Domino. He has developed a website devoted to the subject of quality children"s books and another to collecting the experiences of authors who have self-published.
