A hard-hitting reporter becomes entangled in the story she’s trying to break when she helps her ailing father broker an arms deal in Central America.
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Release Date:
Friday, February 21, 2020 Netflix
language, some violence, disturbing images and brief nudity
Plot: What's the story about?
Adapted from the Joan Didion novel of the same title, The Last Thing He Wanted is set against the nebulous milieu of the Iran-Contra scandal. Veteran D.C. journalist Elena McMahon (Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway) abandons the 1984 campaign trail out of a misguided sense of duty to her father, Dick McMahon (Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe). Guilted into running a dangerous fool’s errand on his behalf, Elena leverages the moment to pursue her own investigation but instead gets tipped into the confounding center of the very intrigue she’s trying to expose. Answers turn into questions and wrong turns lead to dead ends in this stylish political thriller as Elena becomes increasingly lost on a map of someone else’s making and the possibility of return — to home and to herself — slowly narrows.
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Who stars in The Last Thing He Wanted: Cast List
The Idea of You, Flowervale Street
The Flash, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
A Boy Called Christmas, The Canterville Ghost
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), Gods Behaving Badly
Better Start Swimming, Aporia
Kinds of Kindness, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Onward, Brave New Jersey
Willie and Me
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Who's making The Last Thing He Wanted: Crew List
A look at the The Last Thing He Wanted behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Dee Rees last directed Mudbound and Pariah.
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Producers
Cassian ElwesWayne Marc Godfrey
Robert Jones
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Production: What we know about The Last Thing He Wanted?
Key Facts
- Based on Joan Didion's best-selling 1996 political thriller.
Filming Timeline
- 2020 - January: The film was set to Completed status.
Releasing on Netflix in February 2020.
- 2018 - July: The film was set to Production status.
Currently filming in Puerto Rico.
- 2018 - March: The film was set to Development status.
The Last Thing He Wanted Release Date: When was the film released?
The Last Thing He Wanted was a Netflix release in 2020 on Friday, February 21, 2020. There were 10 other movies released on the same date, including The Call of the Wild, Brahms: The Boy II and Emma.