
The Last Thing He Wanted
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 Hathaway
Elena McMahon

Ben Affleck
Treat Morrison

Rosie Perez
Alma Guerrero

Willem Dafoe
Richard McMahon

Edi Gathegi
Jones

Mel Rodriguez
Barry Sedlow

Onata Aprile
Cat McMahon

Toby Jones
Paul Schuster

Carlos Leal
Max Epperson aka Bob Weir

Ben Chase
Max Berquist

Julian Gamble
Secretary George Shultz

Robert Sedgwick
Stewart James
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See all on TMDBThis has to be the worst example yet of the Netflix gazillions buying a cast that looks great on paper, but that delivers badly on screen. It isn't necessarily their fault - the writing is as incoherent as it is facile and the direction is all over the shop. There are simultaneous threads to the story (journalist Anne Hathaway "Elena" ends up in Central America getting drawn into a story of US gov…





