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Harriett and Brendas evolving take on cursing. Fresh from her television appearance looking aghast at her brother Warren Beatty after the already legendary Best-Picture-flub at the Oscars Shirley MacLaine is in a new theatrical release.

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. Shirley MacLaine enters beautiful scowl first in The Last Word a sweet-and-sour dramatic. Up to 24 cash back Harriet Lauler meets a young local writer Anne Sherman to pen her lifes story. Harriet Lauler Shirley MacLaine is an opinionated controlling rich old lady.

The Last Word is fairly generic movie where practically everything is preordained by the subgenres convention. Watching MacLaines Harriet embrace her life after spending too much time rejecting it leads The Last Word to a touching finish. This new film directed by Jonathan Nossiter adapted by Nossiter from a novel by Santiago Amigorena begins in Sun Ras phrase after the end of the world.

It is also a movie for people who enjoyed her role as Ouiser in Steel Magnolias in 1989 because as Harriet in this movie she is even more of a curmudgeon along with being a control freak who in her. Lets start with this example. I enjoyed seeing this new movie starring Shirley McClain last night on a girls night out Not expecting much of this film it turned out to be way better than I expected it would be.

Harriet Shirley MacLaine is a successful retired businesswoman who wants to control everything around her until the bitter end. Although the story is sometimes predictable the filmmakers use witty lines lighthearted music and upbeat scenes to inject a lighthearted spirit. The Last Word could use an addendum.

The movie is prefab indie whimsy but she gives it an afterglow. Her family is estranged and nobody likes her. Owen Gleiberman Jan 24 2017.

She hires newspaper obit writer Anne Sherman Amanda Seyfried to write one for her. The Last Word is a movie for people who lovelike Shirley MacLaine and I am one who does. Why would her obituary be any.

Like too many movies in which the lead performer is over 80 years of age the great MacLaine will turn 83 in April The Last Word opens with a montage of photographs of said performer in. A one-time highly successful business woman Harriet Lawler Shirley MacLaine has micro-managed every single aspect of her life. To make sure her life story is told her way she pays off her local newspaper to have her obituary written in advance under her watchful eye.

This R-rated movie wants to say something but it seems confused about what that message should be. The main character played well by McClain is a prickly person who tries to get the newspaper obituary writer to write her obituary while she is still. The movie is prefab indie whimsy but she gives it.

But Anne Amanda Seyfried the young journalist assigned to the task. MacLaine has something that shines through and elevates a film like this one. Mar 24 2017.

The Last Word proves Shirley MacLaine remains a wonderfully magnetic screen presence -- and deserving of a far better vehicle for her considerable talents. Addressing the camera directly a. After ODing on her meds she starts being concerned about her obituary.

The story reminds viewers that life is short but its never too late to change repent and forgive. The Last Word movie reviews Metacritic score. When the initial result doesnt meet Harriets high expectations she sets out to reshape the way she is remembered with Anne dragged along as an unwilling accomplice.

MacLaine has something that shines through and elevates a film like this one. Harriett first tells Brenda that its not advisable to use profanity because it could be taken as a sign of a lazy mind. Shes retired after running an advertising company.

THE LAST WORD is an engaging comedy with a stellar performance by Shirley MacLaine. Watching MacLaines Harriet embrace her life after spending too much time rejecting it leads The Last Word to a touching finish. The Last Word review unbearably cute and condescending Amanda Seyfried and Shirley MacLaine play a journalist and a cantankerous old woman in a cliched and humourless piece of tosh Sentimental.

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