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Good Night, And Good Luck

directed by George Clooney (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)
written by George Clooney (Kilroy), Grant Heslov (Waiting for Woody)

produced by Grant Heslov

starring David Strathairn (Twisted), George Clooney (Ocean's Twelve), Robert Downey Jr. (Gothika), Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April), Jeff Daniels (Dumb & Dumber), Alex Borstein (Catwoman), Tate Donovan (The Pacifier), Frank Langella (Cutthroat Island), Ray Wise (The Chase), Matt Ross (Down With Love), Robert John Burke (Thinner), Joseph McCarthy

lowdown:  Edward R. Murrow Vs. McCarthyism.

low expectation: 
     Another political allegory.  Ugh. 

follow up: 
     George Clooney tells us a lot about himself in his sophomore film, playing out tributes and timely protests as a movie about broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow's televised attack of McCarthyism.  

Read the Film Cynic review.
   

website:  GoodNightAndGoodLuck.com

official synopsis:  
     In the mid-1950's Edward R. Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly, help bring an end to the tyranny of the blacklist and the House Un-American Activities Committee's anti-Communist hearings. With the platform provided by his CBS News program "See It Now," Murrow challenges Joseph McCarthy on his claims that hundreds of avowed Communists are working covertly as Soviet spies in the U.S. government, among other allegations, and that they have the power to destroy lives and careers.      

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Expectation Key


there's no possible way I will ever see this

I might eventually see this but I'm not really expecting much

anticipating the release of this one but I'm sure to be left unsatisfied

such high expectation of this film only leaves room for disappointment