The Last Thing He Wanted

4.9(530)20201h 56m

DramaThriller

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

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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

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

4y ago

4.0

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 gov...