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Mar 11, 2017 · Working from a list supplied by her imperious subject, whose name is Harriet Lauler, she reaches out to all of the contacts, visits many of them in person, including Harriet’s ex-husband, and...
- Make A Difference in People’s Lives
- Risk Failure
- Make Every Day Count
When Harriet begins in earnest to craft her obituary, she realizes that every great obit from every great dead person shares some commonalities: The obit’s subjects are loved by their families, they’re respected by their co-workers, and they somehow touch an unexpected person in a profound way. Love from family and respect from co-workers is out of...
“Fail,” Harriet tells us. “Fail spectacularly. When you fail, you learn. When you fail, you live.” That’s great advice. We’re not talking about moral failings here, of course. Harriet advocates a willingness to take risks. To step outside our comfort zones. We only find greatness outside those comfort zones. I think that’s where we find our God-giv...
At the age of 81, Harriet becomes a disk jockey for a local experimental radio station, dropping pearls of wisdom between records. One morning, she gives us this. “Please don’t have a nice day,” she says. “Have a day that matters … have a day that meanssomething.” Nice days are great and all, but Harriet realizes that they’re not the stuff of great...
Mar 7, 2017 · Director Mark Pellington ’s heartwarming dramedy, The Last Word, follows the badass adventures of the brash Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine), a tightly wound, 80-something control freak...
Shirley MacLaine stars in “The Last Word” as Harriet Lauler, a retired businesswoman who is underwhelmed when she hires a journalist to write her obituary before she dies. Deciding to rewrite...
In The Last Word, Shirley MacLaine is Harriet Lauler, a once successful businesswoman in tight control of every aspect of her life. As she reflects upon her accomplishment, she's suddenly inspired to engage a young local writer, Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried), to pen her life's story.
Descending into a pit of depresson, Harriet fails in a suicide attempt by taking an overdose of pills. Then after reading positive portraits of people she's known in the local newspaper's obituaries, she convinces the editor (Tom Everett Scott) to have Anne (Amanda Seyfried) write her up.
In The Last Word, Shirley MacLaine is Harriet Lauler, a once successful businesswoman in tight control of every aspect of her life. As she reflects upon her accomplishment, she's suddenly inspired to engage a young local writer, Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried), to pen her life's story.
