We’ve got a trailer here for you to watch for Anne Hathaway’s upcoming Netflix drama thriller, The Last Thing He Wanted. The film comes from director Dee Rees (Mudbound, Pariah) and in the film, Hathaway plays journalist Elena McMahon, who ends up caught in the middle of the Iran-Contra scandal. The movie also stars Willem Dafoe as Elena’s dad, and Ben Affleck.
The movie is based on Joan Dideon’s novel of the same name and here’s the synopsis for the film that was shared, which offers more story details:
Journalist and single mother Elena McMahon (Anne Hathaway) has rigorously investigated Contra activity in Central America for years. Frustrated when her coverage is censored, relief comes in an unexpected package: her acerbic father (Willem Dafoe) falls ill and leaves her a series of unfinished and unsavory arms deals in that very region. Now a pawn in a risky and unfamiliar game, surrounded by live ammunition in more ways than one, and alongside a U.S. state official (Ben Affleck) with whom she has a checkered past, Elena needs to parse her own story to survive. With her disenchanting life awaiting her back home, she is forced to consider what she really wants.
The movie is set to premiere at Sundance, which started this week, and they offered the following introduction to the film: “Seasoned performances by Hathaway, Affleck, and Dafoe match the sobriety of the subject matter and convey the questionable intentions, inscrutable connections, and bitter fates of these complex characters.”
If you enjoy political thrillers, this certainly looks like it’s going to tell a good and exhilarating story, and I plan on checking it out while I’m at Sundance.
The Last Thing He Wanted arrives on Netflix on February 21, 2020.