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The Last Thing He Wanted

January 26, 2017

Director Dee Rees

Genre Crime | Drama | Mystery

Cast Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Rosie Perez, Willem Dafoe

Rating R

Release Date February 21st, 2020 (Netflix)

“A reporter becomes involved in the very story she’s trying to break when she helps her father broker an arms deal.”

From director Dee Rees (Mudbound) The Last Thing He Wanted follows a veteran D.C. journalist who loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Check out the official trailer below!!

Ted Takes Fun Facts, The Last Thing He Wanted:

  • Based on Joan Didion's 1996 Orange Prize-winning novel, The Last Thing He Wanted.

  • Premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

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