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The Last Thing He Wanted
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.
- Original title
- The Last Thing He Wanted
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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CinemaSerf
Mar 27, 2022 · via TMDB
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?
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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
Juan Carlos Diaz
Paladín
Aurelio Lima
Drunken Soldier
Norman Santiago
Shady Taxi Driver
Jason Lumberjack Johnson
Wayne
Michael Ray Davis
Committee Member #1
Inbal Weinberg
Production Design
Teddy Blanks
Title Designer
Bobby Bukowski
Director of Photography
Ane Crabtree
Costume Design
Allan A. Apone
Makeup Department Head
Leonardo Castro Sitiriche
Stunts
Dee Rees
Director
Tom Poole
Color Grading
Wayne Marc Godfrey
Executive Producer
Dee Rees
Producer
Tamar-kali
Original Music Composer
Margarita Aponte
Sound Mixer
Joan Didion
Novel
Dee Rees
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