Kill the Messenger

Jeremy Renner gives his best performance since 'The Hurt Locker' in this assiduous, engrossing drama about the late investigative reporter Gary Webb.
-- Andrew Barker, Variety

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Kill the Messenger

Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner ("The Bourne Legacy") leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the jaw-dropping true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets...and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. - and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.
R
Genre
Bio-pic, Crime, Drama
Runtime
112
Language
English
Director
Michael Cuesta
Cast
Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Sheen, Robert Patrick, Michael K Williams, Paz Vega, Rosemarie DeWitt, Barry Pepper, Oliver Platt, Richard Schiff
FEATURED REVIEW
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter

The Iran-Contra scandal was already decade-old news and Ronald Reagan was long out of office when San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb started sniffing around for verification that Nicaraguan rebels with CIA backing were smuggling drugs into the U.S. — and, specifically, flooding coke into South ...

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