Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mary Jane's Last Dance (1993) watch online HD

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perform in the music video "Mary Jane's Last Dance" from the album "Greatest Hits" recorded for MCA Records. The music video features Tom Petty as a morgue assistant who becomes infatuated with a beautiful woman's body. He steals the body, takes it home, and treats it like it is alive. Later, he takes it to the ocean and leaves the body in the water.

A scene in the video featuring the dead woman wearing a wedding dress in a room full of wax candles is loosely based on a passage from the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.

The plot also has similarities with the French movie Cold Moon, itself inspired by a Charles Bukowski short story ("The Copulating Mermaid of Venice").

Besides Cold Moon and Great Expectations, the plot of the video also bares some semblance to the final segment of the 1987 Belgian film Crazy Love (which in itself, is like Cold Moon, also inspired by the writings of Charles Bukowski, in particular "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, California"). However, only in the video for "Mary Jane's Last Dance" was any sexual contact between Tom Petty and Kim Basinger ("the corpse") not shown despite none the less, being implied.

Kim Basinger was not the first choice for the video. Tom Petty wanted Sharon Stone, but she didn't answer his request. Petty wanted a raving beauty to play the corpse so it would make sense why his character keeps her around.

According to Kim Basinger in a June 2015 interview with Marlow Stern of The Daily Beast, both she and Tom Petty were so shy that they just said three words to each other the whole time. Basinger added that she could never forget how heavy the wedding dress that she wore was.

During the final scenes of the video, Tom Petty is seen carrying Kim Basinger through a cave before placing her in the water. The cave is located at Leo Carrillo State Park, California where many movies and television shows were filmed.

Twelve years prior to the production and release of "Mary Jane's Last Dance", Kim Basinger started in a made-for-television thriller-mystery film for CBS called "Killjoy". Towards the end, the body of Basinger's character, Laury Medford is discovered in a morgue by John Rubinstein's character Dr. Paul Trenton. And just like in end of "Mary Jane's Last Dance", Basinger in this particular scene from "Killjoy" ultimately pulls a little surprise of her own.

The automobile that Tom Petty drives with Kim Basinger's body in the backseat from the morgue to his house appears to be a 1955 Cadillac. Meanwhile, the car that's parked outside of the house, when Petty exits the house while carries Basinger's body, could possibly be a 1955 Chevrolet (either a Bel Air or Two-Ten). Whether or not Petty drives a singular vehicle during this time frame, is not fully verified.

In 2017, Kim Basinger told "Billboard" that the director, Keir McFarlane was a gruff guy; it was kind of like, his way or the highway. As the story really unfolded McFarlane kept saying to Basinger, "Look, you have got to really play dead--all your weight!" Basinger and Tom Petty responded by laughing really hard.

Costumer Donna O'Neal, who had worked with Kim Basinger on several of her films soaked Basinger's wedding dress in tea in order to get the particular color that it became in the finished video.

On Mary Jane's toe tag, it's implied that she was at the very least, embalmed on September 22.

The wedding dress that Kim Basinger wears is a Western style dress with a long sleeved, square neckline, lace bodice, and a ruffled floor-length skirt.

The house that Tom Petty takes Kim Basinger to is a theatrical set, probably a matte painting, in a cartoon-like variety of a Victorian style house. The interior shots also bear this out, with classic Victorian decor and finishes. It has a strong Maurice Nobel or Chuck Jones style to it, from the tapered bottom and monochrome lighting. It's supposed to be evocative of the creepy character of the undertaker.

It follows the Victorian style of the 1800s with its rich furnishings; velvet fabrics, crystal, eclectic cluttered interiors. A melange of oriental and western decor, including animal trophies and photos to show the worldly travel of the owner.

The television set that is featured in Tom Petty's living room appears to be a modified General Electric Locomotive model TV set from the 1940s (probably from 1949). It has a 10 inch screen and a walnut casing. However, if you look carefully enough, it looks as if they used a second TV off-screen on a static channel and reflected it off the flat, reflective surface on the front of the TV used in the shot.