THE LAST WORD (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment), Amanda Seyfried (Chloe), Anne Heche (Catfight), Tom Everett Scott (La La Land), Thomas Sadoski (John Wick), Joel Murray (Monsters University), Adina Porter (Pipe Dream), Philip Baker Hall (Zodiac), Sarah Baker (Tammy), Steven Culp (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Basil Hoffman (Ordinary People)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies), director, producer; Stuart Ross Fink (film debut), writer; Kirk D’Amico (Eulogy) and Anne-Marie Mackay (film debut), producers; Nathan Matthew David (The Afterlight), composer; Eric Koretz (Comet), cinematographer; Julia Wong (The Belko Experiment), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Harriet (MacLaine) is a retired businesswoman with a penchant for controlling everything around her, so when she decides that she wants her obituary to be written to her exact words, she hires young journalist Anne (Seyfried) to type it up under her watchful eye. However, Anne instead decides to dig deeper into the facts about Harriet’s life, resulting in a life-altering friendship…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Shirley MacLaine proves that she’s still got it – as if you really needed a reminder of that – with a meaty role in this heartwarming crowd-pleaser about finding friends in the most unlikely of places.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 7TH JULY 2017

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