Harriet is a retired businesswoman who tries to control everything around her. When she decides to write her own obituary, a young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth resulting in a life-altering friendship.
3 October 1975, Downey, California, USA
7 September 1970, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
1 July 1976, Bethany, Connecticut, USA
20 May 1960, Media, Pennsylvania, USA
4 August 1965, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
1 October 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 September 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
24 April 1934, Richmond, Virginia, USA
8 June 1934, Romford, Essex, England, UK
18 January 1938, Houston, Texas, USA
10 September 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA
9 January 1979, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
27 January 1970, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
25 May 1969, Aurora, Ohio, USA
1 October 1957, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
17 April 1963, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
3 December 1955, La Jolla, California, USA
3 December 1985, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
26 June 1955, Ogden, Utah, USA
May 10, 2017
MacLaine is the only reason this movie works.
March 10, 2017
By the time MacLaine's character Harriet shows real humanity, all sympathy for her character's loneliness has long since vanished.
March 10, 2017
I hope that in the name of her decades-spanning career and six Academy Award nominations (plus one win), we might do MacLaine the small courtesy of forgetting that this pedestrian and dull comedy ever happened.
March 17, 2017
The occasionally retired Ms. MacLaine is ever quick with a retort, but this is one lead-footed comeback we all could have done without.
March 10, 2017
Beyond the contrivance and a gimmicky story that not only would never happen but would never happen in the way it happens here, there are positive aspects to "The Last Word."
March 29, 2017
One of the few comedies about the challenges of creating a legacy at the end of life.
March 24, 2017
Thank goodness for Shirley MacLaine. With anyone else in the lead role, this sweet but uneven indie would have likely buckled under the weight of its mounting contrivances.
April 04, 2017
Another failed Redeemed Cranky Old Person Movie (Splice Today)
April 07, 2017
It's disappointing to note, then, that The Last Word takes a fairly palpable nosedive into irrelevance as it passes the one-hour mark...
March 17, 2017
Even when surrounded by junk, the 83-year-old MacLaine still has plenty of pep. She's a treasure, but "The Last Word" doesn't do her or her legacy justice.
March 09, 2017
Let the plausibility-stretching contrivances begin!
