The Last Thing He Wanted

  • Theatrical - Wide 2019-01-27

JoBlo's Rating

3/10

Synopsis

A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she’s trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion’s namesake novel.

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Review: The Last Thing He Wanted (Sundance 2020)

PLOT: A journalist (Anne Hathaway) covering the war in Nicaragua circa 1984, is thrown into danger when she agrees to do a weapons deal for her gunrunner father (Willem Dafoe), who’s suffering from dementia. REVIEW: It’s hard to fathom what...

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