A thought enters one’s head about forty minutes into Dee Rees’ Joan Didion adaptation The Last Thing He Wanted: This…
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Cast
Anne Hathaway (Elena McMahon)Ben Affleck (Treat Morrison)Rosie Perez (Alma Guerrero)Willem Dafoe (Dick 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 (Stuart James)Bill Kelly (General Gus Sharp)David Vadim (Buck Pearson)César Galindez (Red Truck Driver)Diomedes Rodriguez (Glistening Boy)Casiano Ancalle (Elderly Campesino Leader)Lee Markham (Tarmac Secret Service Agent)
Director
Dee Rees
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Synopsis
A veteran D.C. journalist 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. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
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