ronsmitharlingtoncouncil Great cast. Great writing. Shirley McClain and Amanda were excellent together. The music was perfect.

rexoates Sometimes, you just need to watch a formulaic, heart-string tugging, well acted movie. And while "The Last Word" has a predictable plot, the script is really good, with beautiful voices given to every character. Keep an eye out for Stuart Ross Fink (writer...this was his first effort), and for AnnJewel Lee Majestic Dixon, who played the young kid. Shirley McClain is...well...Shirley McClain, and that's never a bad thing. And it's a solid performance from Amanda Seyfried. It's not a ground breaking movie, but it is rewarding in its own right. As to the "message" of the movie...Fink reminds us that it's only by taking risks that you earn the rewards. And while that message may be familiar, his lyrics to this particular song are truthful and poetic.

paulc17 I struggled with how to rate this. The acting was good and the story was good, but the idea that someone can be so controlling, selfish and mean her whole life, and at the end of that life when she is all alone because of that behavior, have her actions suddenly transformed into, to paraphrase, "making people be all they can be" is bull. Like I said, she was a mean, selfish and controlling person who no one liked, and never even attempts to make any redemption for that.

adonis98-743-186503 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. The Last Word has an interesting cast and 2 very talented actresses Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried but that isn't enough to satisfy some of the hardest movie fans in the world, the film is very slow paced, the characters are annoying and the acting isn't very good everyone seems bored out of their minds. Plus the story isn't even that interesting to begin with and honestly i feared that the movie was going to be bad but i didn't expected it to be that bad. (0/10)