The Last Thing He Wanted
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.
- Production
- Elevated Films, Little Red Hen, The Fyzz
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Cast
Anne Hathaway
Elena McMahon
Ben Affleck
Treat Morrison
Rosie Perez
Alma Guerrero
Willem Dafoe
Richard McMahon
Edi Gathegi
Jones
Mel Rodriguez
Barry Sedlow
Onata Aprile
Cat McMahon
Toby Jones
Paul Schuster
Carlos Leal
Max Epperson aka Bob Weir
Ben Chase
Max Berquist
Julian Gamble
Secretary George Shultz
Robert Sedgwick
Stewart James
Bill Kelly
General Gus Sharp
David Vadim
Buck Pearson
James Scully
Sloppy Reporter
Adam Hose
Young Male Reporter
Barbara Andres
Helena Shultz
Sewell Whitney
Campaign Lackey
Jené
Delia
Yetta Gottesman
Night Nurse
Crew
- Director
- Dee Rees
- Writers
- Marco Villalobos,Dee Rees
- Producers
- Dee Rees,Jamin O'Brien,Luillo Ruiz,Cassian Elwes
- Cinematography
- Bobby Bukowski
- Composer
- Tamar-kali
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CinemaSerf
March 27, 2022
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 …