The Report (2019)

Directed by

Scott Z. Burns

Genre

drama film, political film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1,169 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Senate staffer leads a lengthy investigation into the CIA's use of torture after 9/11. The film follows his work to document the agency's methods and push for the release of the official report.

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What happens

The Report (styled as The Torture Report) is a 2019 American historical political drama film written and directed by Scott Z. Burns that stars Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Ted Levine, Michael C. Hall, Tim Blake Nelson, Corey Stoll, and Maura Tierney. It depicts the efforts of staffer Daniel Jones as he led the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency's use of torture following the September 11th attacks, covering more than a decade's worth of real-life political intrigue related to the contents, creation, and release of the 6,700-pages of the U.S. Senate report on CIA torture. The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019. It was released in theaters in the United States by Amazon Studios on November 15, 2019, two weeks before it began streaming on Amazon Prime on November 29. Critical reviews of the film were generally positive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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