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Pair the rising star director Dee Rees with a Joan Didion adaptation and the Oscar-winning Anne Hathaway and you have the kind of on-paper buzz we love talking about here on THOB. But The Last Thing He Wanted<\/em>, following Hathaway as a journalist whose wayward father mires her in South American arms conflict, ended up being anything but a success. Anticipated heavily on the 2019 fall festival circuit, Netflix ultimately quietly premiered the film at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and dumped it shortly after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This episode, we talk about the film’s narrative issues and how its timely exactly pre-COVID and Netflix’s 2020 lineup allowed the film to be quickly forgotten. We also talk about Hathaway as a steadfast committed performer, Rees’ ascendancy with Mudbound<\/em> and Pariah<\/em>, and both Willem Dafoe and Toby Jones enter our Six Timers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also discuss The Witches<\/em>, Ben Affleck era of exiting Batman, and Rosie Perez as Co-Worker On Phone.<\/p>\n