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Buckle up. It’s gonna be bananas.”. Watching “The Last Thing He Wanted” is a truly dissociative experience, in which eventually story, image, and emotion are entirely disconnected from each other. It simply plays in front of you, and then carries you all the way to Elena working as a daily housekeeper for an expatriate played by Toby ...
Feb 25, 2020 · Elena gets a plane ticket out of Costa Rica via one of the men who organized her father’s original weapons deals. She realizes at the last second that it’s a set-up and that the men are trying ...
- Anna Menta
Budget. $100 million. The Last Thing He Wanted is a 2020 political thriller film directed by Dee Rees, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Joan Didion, from a screenplay by Rees and Marco Villalobos. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Rosie Perez, Edi Gathegi, Mel Rodriguez, Toby Jones, and Willem Dafoe.
Based on Joan Didion’s novel of the same name, The Last Thing He Wanted is a political thriller film with more strands of story than there are characters. Filled with stars, the premise centres around veteran journalist Elena McMahon (Anne Hathaway) who quits her job covering the 1984 United States presidential election to care for her dying father (Willem Dafoe).
Feb 28, 2020 · With her adaptation of Joan Didion’s novel “The Last Thing He Wanted,” Dee Rees has managed to make a deconstructed genre thriller that is both politically sensitive and emotionally acute ...
- mark.olsen@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Feb 21, 2020 · The Last Thing He Wanted on Netflix is based on the Joan Didion novel of the same name, but – alas – retains little of its source material's drama, poetry or nuance. Didion is a formidable ...
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Feb 22, 2020 · Dee Rees’ Netflix movie The Last Thing He Wanted feels strangely like a companion piece to The Snowman. That 2017 murder-mystery thriller gained infamy for a few reasons. First, every poster for ...