As a genealogist for many many years, I found the premise intriguing. Write one's own obituary. While my husband was in the late stages of pulmonary fibrosis and pretty much bedfast, I asked him to please write his obituary for me. He had done so many things in his lifetime, I didn't know what he would want included. That being said... my late husband, Jerry Hedges, co-wrote the song, Tornado, with Russ "Andy" Anderson. The song was recorded by the Jiants on Claudra records in Marion, Indiana. My husband played that strange new guitar sound, Andy sang vocals, Ron Wolfe played drums and Lee Balsbaugh played the piano. The song can be heard playing in the background of a scene in the radio station. Linda Lane Hedges

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.

I write this review to forewarn all the readers of this stinker of a movie. Don't trust all the positive reviews that you read here. They are either paid or they have bad taste.This movie started out OK but it goes downhill very fast and reach a dead end where it finally dies.0/10 if there's a 0

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)