The Last Word

Lovely film about a cantankerous, controlling widow Harriet (Shirley MacLaine) who reads obituaries talking about the good deeds of hateful people and decides she should have a good one herself. She approaches the writer responsible, Anne (Amanda Seyfried) and asks her to write her obituary.

Along the way, both women learn some important lessons.

Wonderful performances, especially from scene-stealer AnnJewel Lee Dixon, who is a scream.

Enjoyable, on the predictable side, but very well done.

I have to admit going into this a little unprepared and not sure what to expect. I hadn't read any write ups and went in with very little knowledge of what the movie was about.

I nearly always like Shirley MacLaine movies, she rarely does a bad one and Amanda Seyfried usually does OK. This was no exception and Shirley MacLaine really shines in this one. The roles is not really new, we have seen her in this type of role before so it is one she is either picked for or picks for herself.

Amanda Seyfried does quite well, but the real performance to look out for is from AnnJewel Lee Dixon, she really does make for a fun movie and steals some of the scenes she is in from Shirley MacLaine.

Word of warning, if you don't like the use of foul language by young children you may not like this movie, be prepared for that.

Some would say this is a predictable movie, so be it, it probably is, but it is also very entertaining and worth the price of admission.

8/10 for me and I would see it again.

This movie caught me off guard. I was expecting a boring, standard movie with a few funny sketches when I was rewarded with a brilliant, profound movie that came to me as a tiny mirror of my own life. You won't regret it but in the end, these are just my thoughts.

Shirley MacLaine did a wonderful job. That is it. The movie in itself was predictable and they of course had to throw in a little kid that was quite annoying. But Shirley MacLaine was great!

A maclaine seyfried project. Co-leads and producers. At least they out sourced directing! Maclaine has done this same, grumpy, demanding, elderly lady in several roles, similar to some of jane fonda's roles! Thinking over her own life, harriet decides her own obituary isn't going to sound good. So she hires a writer to write it. And decides to try to change her own list of life accomplishments. Good premise, mostly good acting. But when they include a sassy young child in their activities, it just gets creepy. Clearly they want to include all the generations in this lesson, but it just gets strange. Should two grown women bring along a young, precocious, (unrelated) child when they commit crimes? She seems to have moved in with harriet. And that stunt at the ad firm was just silly. Would the tow truck driver really go along with that?? It's entertaining enough, but over the top in a couple places. And what happened with the daughter? We just dropped that storyline. Inquiring minds want to know!