The Last Thing He Wanted

2/14/20201h 56m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

Overview:

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

Director:

Dee Rees

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

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Key words:

based on novel or book
sandinism
el salvador
co-workers relationship
woman director
investigative journalism
costa rica
1980s
political thriller
weapons trafficking
iran–contra affair
father daughter relationship

Cast

Anne Hathaway

~ as ~

Elena McMahon

Ben Affleck

~ as ~

Treat Morrison

Rosie Perez

~ as ~

Alma Guerrero

Willem Dafoe

~ as ~

Richard McMahon

Edi Gathegi

~ as ~

Jones

Mel Rodriguez

~ as ~

Barry Sedlow

Onata Aprile

~ as ~

Cat McMahon

Toby Jones

~ as ~

Paul Schuster

Carlos Leal

~ as ~

Max Epperson aka Bob Weir

Ben Chase

~ as ~

Max Berquist

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
4
This has to be the worst example yet of the Netflix gazillions buying a cast that looks great on paper, but that delivers badly on screen. It isn't necessarily their fault - the writing is as incoherent as it is facile and the direction is all over the shop. There are simultaneous threads to the story (journalist Anne Hathaway "Elena" ends up in Central America getting drawn into a story of US government/agency duplicity and espionage that she was meant to be there to report on, basically) that simply don't tie up - we have no context into which we can immerse ourselves! Ben Affleck can't need the cash this badly and though Toby Jones did make me smile; I'm not sure he was meant to. It's a decent enough book, so what happened with this poor adaptation to screenplay is anyone's guess, but please can we have more emphasis on the quality of the story and dialogue to make the A-list cast worth their money next time?