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The Last Thing He Wanted
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32/100
Every rating
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Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 5, highest is Trakt on 51. Critics average 20, everyone else 35.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A seasoned journalist covering the 1984 presidential campaign abandons her assignment to fulfill her ailing father's last request. She finds herself thrust into the center of a dangerous arms deal connected to the U.S. government's covert operations in Central America. As she delves deeper, she becomes a pawn in a much larger and deadlier conspiracy that threatens to consume her entirely.
Details
- Director
- Dee Rees
- Writers
- Dee Rees, Marco Villalobos
- Based on
- The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
- Studio
- Elevated Films, Little Red Hen, The Fyzz
- Released
- 14 February 2020
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| Golden Raspberry Awards 2020 | Worst Actress | Anne Hathaway (also for The Witches ) | Nominee |
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