The Last Thing He Wanted

Elena McMahon (Anne Hathaway) is a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 presidential campaign, the kind who keeps pushing after everyone else has filed. Then she drops her assignment to carry out the last wish of her ailing father, Richard (Willem Dafoe), whose past she barely knows. Dee Rees, adapting Joan Didion's novel, sets her against the Iran-Contra affair, where every favor she does for him puts her closer to danger.