The Last Thing He Wanted
DramaThrillerbased on novel or booksandinismel salvadorco-workers relationshipwoman directorinvestigative journalismcosta rica1980spolitical thrillerweapons traffickingiran–contra affairfather daughter relationship
A morally murky political thriller centered on a journalist's dangerous entanglement with her father's shadowy past during the Iran-Contra scandal.
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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