Shooter (1988)

Directed by

Gary Nelson

Genre

drama film, action film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a made-for-TV movie about a photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War. It shows his life as a war photographer and later his work at the White House.

intensecharacter-drivengrittyreflectivetenseearnestslow-burnserious

What happens

Shooter is a 1988 American made-for-television action drama film based on the book Shooter by and about Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly, who had been a combat photojournalist during the Vietnam War and later the White House photographer for President Gerald Ford. The film was produced as a pilot which was not picked up as a series by NBC and originally aired on September 11, 1988. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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