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State of Play

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When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Status: Released

Released Date: 2009-04-17

Runtime: 127 mins

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Spoken language: 广州话 / 廣州話, Français, English

Genres: Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Original title: State of Play

Production Companies: Andell Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films, StudioCanal, Relativity Media

Production Countries: France, United Kingdom, United States of America

Cast

Russell Crowe

Ben Affleck

Rachel McAdams

Helen Mirren

Robin Wright

Jason Bateman

Jeff Daniels

Michael Berresse

Harry Lennix

Josh Mostel

Michael Weston

Barry Shabaka Henley

Viola Davis

David Harbour

Reviews

narrator56

This movie follows a familiar subset of the thriller genre, that of the journalist investigating a story and discovering there is more involved than what meets the eye, and before he knows it there is evidence of a conspiracy stretching high into government. How high? Well, that of course varies from one conspiracy movie to the next. I couldn’t help but notice that one of the methods of death early on here was later borrowed by the series House of Cards (U.S. version). But there are only so many ways of making possible murders look like accidents or suicides, so perhaps it was coincidental. The acting and the writing were fine, however familiar the story seemed. It just felt like it wouldn’t have taken much originality to alter the plot to separate it from all the other journalistic investigations of government corruption.

2021-07-25

tanty

Good movie, great cast and interesting plot. A movies as they used to be when interesting thrillers were on the screens with higher frequency.

2013-10-25

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