Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

Directed by

Peter Landesman

Genre

drama film, biographical film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 557 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging FBI agent secretly feeds information to reporters investigating a political scandal. He risks his career and personal safety to expose corruption inside the White House.

serioustenseslow-burnhistoricalsuspensefulmelancholicrestraineddarkly dramatic

What happens

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is a 2017 American biographical political thriller film written and directed by Peter Landesman, and based on the 2006 autobiography of FBI agent Mark Felt, written with John O'Connor. The film depicts how Felt became the anonymous source nicknamed "Deep Throat" for reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and helped them in their investigation of the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The film stars Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Tony Goldwyn, and Maika Monroe. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, and was theatrically released on September 29, 2017, by Sony Pictures Classics. It is also the fourth film on the Watergate scandal, following All the President's Men (1976), The Final Days (1989), and Dick (1999). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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