Saturday, 29 November 2025

The Last Word (2017 Mark Pellington)

Could have been the seed for Hacks. An aging advertising genius hires a young journalist to research her life and write a decent obituary - at least, that's the way it starts. Shirley MacLaine ends up semi-adopting a small child (AnnJewel Lee DIxon) and becomes a DJ, whilst teaching budding Amanda Seyfried how to act. Sorry - not act. What am I talking about? How to, er, fulfil her potential or something. See? It's Hacks.

Shirley MacLaine - I was thinking while it was going on - is quite bonkers. In real life.

It was quite enjoyable even though you can't help watching it and thinking that there's a better film going on somewhere else that you're missing out on.

With Anne Heche, Thomas Sadoski, Philip Baker Hall, Tom Everett Scott, Todd Louiso, Millicent Martin.




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