《父亲的遗愿》講述了安妮·海瑟薇商談參演[他最後想要的東西](The Last Thing He Wanted,暫譯)。該片根據瓊·迪迪恩1996年同名小說改編,迪·裏斯([泥土之界])執導。影片故事講述一位名叫埃琳娜•麥克馬宏的記者放棄對1984年總統競選活動的報道,而爲了實現父親的意願,她決定報道伊朗毒品交易的新聞。
A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.