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The Last Thing He Wanted is a 2020 British-American political thriller film directed by Dee Rees based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Joan Didion, from a screenplay by Rees and Marco Villalobos. It stars Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Rosie Perez, Edi Gathegi, Mel Rodriguez, Toby Jones, and Willem Dafoe.

It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2020. It was released on February 21, 2020, by Netflix. The film was heavily panned by critics, with criticism for its writing.

A journalist for the fictitious Atlanta Post stops her coverage of the 1984 U.S. Presidential election to care for her dying father. In the process, she inherits his position as an arms dealer for Central America, and learns of the Iran–Contra affair.