Truth

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Truth

Release Date: October 16, 2015 (limited)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: James Vanderbilt
MPAA Rating: R (for language and a brief nude photo)
Screenwriter: James Vanderbilt
Genre: Drama, Biography

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Elisabeth Moss, Dennis Quaid

Plot Summary: "Truth" is based on the book “Truth and Duty” by Mary Mapes. In the vein of “All The President’s Men” and “The Insider,” it is the incredible true story of Mary Mapes (played by Cate Blanchet), an award-winning CBS News Journalist and Dan Rather’s producer, who broke the Abu-Ghraib prison abuse story, among others. The film chronicles the story Mapes and Rather uncovered that a sitting US president may have been AWOL from the United States National Guard for over a year during the Vietnam War. When the story blew up in their face, the ensuing scandal ruined Dan Rather’s career, nearly changed a US Presidential election, and almost took down all of CBS News in the process.

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Saw this last evening. Helluva story, helluva screen adaptation. Very timely for Max/HBO to air this considering the political process and the corp news machine at work during this election period.

I find it odd that this thing got only 3 1/2 stars in general.
 
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