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The Last Thing He Wanted
Drama, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to morally compromised political thrillers about journalism, family obligations, and opaque international power struggles.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- investigative journalism, family duty, political corruption, moral compromise, geopolitical intervention
- Setting
- 1980s, political offices, conflict zones, and Central American backwaters
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