Last Word, The

After a lonely, cantankerous, no-nonsense, controlling, divorced, retired, 81-year-old advertising executive (Shirley MacLaine) botches a suicide attempt, reads overblown obituaries, and then requests that a stuck-in-a-rut newspaper journalist (Amanda Seyfried) write her obituary so that she can oversee the composition in this touching, bittersweet, thought-provoking, well-acted, star-studded (Philip Baker Hall, Tom Everett Scott, Anne Heche, Steven Culp, John Billingsley, and Joel Murray), 108-minute film based on Stuart Ross Fink's novel, she suddenly tries to make a difference at the end of her life by challenging and bonding with the writer as she delves into her colorful past, by befriending a precocious 9-year-old girl (Ann Jewel Lee Dixon) from the projects, and by convincing a producer (Thomas Sadoski) to give her a gig as a DJ at the local radio station.
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