Chappaquiddick (2018)

Directed by

John Curran

Genre

political drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 291 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A U.S. senator causes a car accident that kills a young woman. He then tries to manage the fallout with help from his family and advisors.

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What happens

Chappaquiddick is a 2017 American political drama film directed by John Curran, and written by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan. The film stars Jason Clarke as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Ted Kennedy and Kate Mara as Mary Jo Kopechne, with Ed Helms, Bruce Dern, Jim Gaffigan, Clancy Brown, and Olivia Thirlby in supporting roles. The plot details the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, in which Kennedy's negligence caused an automobile accident which resulted in the death of his 28-year-old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne trapped inside the vehicle, and the Kennedy family's response. Principal photography began in Boston, in September 2016. The film originally premiered at the Gala Presentations section at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2017, and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Entertainment Studios. The film was released under the title The Senator in the United Kingdom. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its balanced screenplay and Clarke's performance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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