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Deadline (1988)

Deadline poster
Directed by
Rick Stroud
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British television film about a journalist digging into a sensitive story. It follows the pressure he faces as he pursues the truth.

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What happens

Deadline is a 1988 British drama television film, directed by Richard Stroud and based on a novel and adapted for the screen by Tom Stacey, which aired on BBC. It stars John Hurt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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