The Last Thing He Wanted. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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The Last Thing He Wanted
Joan Didion, 1996
movie vs book
Dee Rees, 2020

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.