At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

Anne Hathaway
as Elena McMahon

Ben Affleck
as Treat Morrison

Rosie Perez
as Alma Guerrero

Willem Dafoe
as Richard McMahon

Edi Gathegi
as Jones

Mel Rodriguez
as Barry Sedlow

Onata Aprile
as Cat McMahon

Toby Jones
as Paul Schuster

Carlos Leal
as Max Epperson aka Bob Weir

Ben Chase
as Max Berquist
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This has to be the worst example yet of the Netflix gazillions buying a cast that looks great on paper, but that delivers badly on screen. It isn't necessarily their fault - the writing is as incoherent as it is facile and the direction is all over the shop. There are simultaneous threads to the sto...