The Last Word (2017)
Directed by Mark Pellington
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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Pellington explores and builds upon MacLaine’s persona the way that John Ford did with John Wayne in The Searchers, or Clint Eastwood did with himself in Gran Torino: Her work in The Last Word recalls and comments upon films like The Apartment, Terms of Endearment and Postcards From the Edge—then goes deeper.
It’s a sub-genre with a high degree of difficulty and a very low degree of success—in fact, it’s only ever given us one decent movie, Clint Eastwood’s 2008 Gran Torino.