The Last Word

The Last Word

2017 "An unexpected friendship that began at the end."
The Last Word
The Last Word

The Last Word

6.6 | 1h48m | R | en | Drama

A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.

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6.6 | 1h48m | R | en | Drama , Comedy | More Info
Released: March. 03,2017 | Released Producted By: Myriad Pictures , Parkside Pictures Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bleeckerstreetmedia.com/thelastword
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A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.

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Shirley MacLaine , Amanda Seyfried , Anne Heche

Director

Richard Hoover

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Myriad Pictures , Parkside Pictures

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rexoates Sometimes, you just need to watch a formulaic, heart-string tugging, well acted movie. And while "The Last Word" has a predictable plot, the script is really good, with beautiful voices given to every character. Keep an eye out for Stuart Ross Fink (writer...this was his first effort), and for AnnJewel Lee Majestic Dixon, who played the young kid. Shirley McClain is...well...Shirley McClain, and that's never a bad thing. And it's a solid performance from Amanda Seyfried. It's not a ground breaking movie, but it is rewarding in its own right. As to the "message" of the movie...Fink reminds us that it's only by taking risks that you earn the rewards. And while that message may be familiar, his lyrics to this particular song are truthful and poetic.
paulc17 I struggled with how to rate this. The acting was good and the story was good, but the idea that someone can be so controlling, selfish and mean her whole life, and at the end of that life when she is all alone because of that behavior, have her actions suddenly transformed into, to paraphrase, "making people be all they can be" is bull. Like I said, she was a mean, selfish and controlling person who no one liked, and never even attempts to make any redemption for that.
TxMike My wife and I watched this at home on BluRay from our public library. We both enjoyed it as a great character study with a few life lessons.I have long been a Shirley MacLaine fan, now in her 80s she delivers a spot-on performance as Harriet, formerly successful businesswoman and now very wealthy in Southern California. She has a very controlling personality, probably obsessive-compulsive, and one day while reading some obituaries she decides she doesn't want to leave hers to chance so she looks up the local newspaper reporter who writes them.Harriet has long been a well-funded advertiser and is important to the newspaper so she has no difficulty convincing the editor to honor her wishes. The obituary writer is Amanda Seyfried as Anne. She has many of Harriet's characteristics but is not yet confident enough to write the stories that she really wants to write.Harriet has analyzed obituaries and decided that there are 4 key elements and she is missing one, the unexpected feat for the obit's intro. So she decides she will bridge that gap by finding a disadvantaged "at risk" child to mentor. She finds AnnJewel Lee Dixon as the charming but foul-mouthed Brenda. She too has many of Harriet's characteristics.So, as the stories move forward it centers on this rag-tag trio who seem to have nothing in common but end up helping each other realize some changes that each needs to make. And, as Harriet is diagnosed with congestive heart failure the writing of her obituary takes on fresh importance.
Red-Barracuda An elderly business woman hires a young newspaper woman to write her obituary on her terms. Her forthright personality has left her with few friends in life and poor family relations, she is forced to change her ways belatedly to try and leave a better legacy.Firstly, it does have to be admitted that this film is extremely predictable and it's not very difficult more or less working out the plot-line from the word go. As far as the story goes, there aren't any surprises to be found here it has to be said. But, despite this over-familiarity, the film still works and that is a testament to the acting, primarily from Shirley MacLaine who puts in a strong, spiky performance which I would not be at all surprised if it garnered an Oscar nomination next year. She is loads of fun to watch and is supported well by Amanda Seyfried as the young journalist and AnneJewel Lee Dixon as the little kid she takes a shine to. It's essentially a comedy-drama and mixes the dramatics with the humour pretty well. It also has to be said that it isn't so common to have a movie focus on the latter years of the elderly, which it has to be commended for doing. So, there is that more unusual angle interwoven into the otherwise highly standard plot structure. Essentially, over familiarity aside, this is a very entertaining movie which has a great Shirley MacLaine performance topping it off.