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The Last Thing He Wanted

2020
Directed byDee Rees
1h 56m

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

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Anne HathawayElena McMahonBen AffleckTreat MorrisonRosie Perez
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Carlos LealMax Epperson aka Bob Weir
Ben ChaseMax Berquist
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DramaThriller
STATUSReleased
RATING
4.9

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