Can Anyone Give Me A Rundown Of The "Goodnight, Good Luck" Movie (again)?

[Dinger]

Thanks.

[madame defarge]

1. Watch the trailer...

It's a movie not to be missed...it's about Edward R. Murrow's conflict with Joe McCarthy in the 1950's. It's about truth to power. It's about time a movie like this comes out...

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/goodnightandgoodluck.html

[merwin]

2. Oddly enough, hollywood refused to fund it.

:sarcasm:

Clooney had to raise the money himself.

[madame defarge]

5. Another reason to like Clooney...

(as if I needed one...) B-)

[Lancer]

3. Good synopsis

In the mid-1950's Edward R. Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly, help bring an end to the tyranny of the blacklist and the House Un-American Activities Committee's anti-Communist hearings. With the platform provided by his CBS News program "See It Now," Murrow challenges Joseph McCarthy on his claims that hundreds of avowed Communists are working covertly as Soviet spies in the U.S. government, among other allegations, and that they have the power to destroy lives and careers.

www.rottentomatoes.com

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. My impression from the promos: it's an allegory from the McCarthy era

for our times. Murrow used his media position to shine a spotlight on McCarthy's tactics, in contrast to the rest of the cowardly media of the time.

It's meant to shine a spotlight on the role our media is playing right now in the fear tactics of Bushco.

Haven't seen the movie. But this is what I gather from the preview and what I've read and seen.

[walldude]

6. Just FYI the movie is playing in only 11 theaters but is

expanding to 300 theaters next Friday(Oct 20th) then a few hundred more the first Fri in Nov. It's playing in Denver but at one of the art houses, we are waiting to see if it opens in a theater with rocking chairs and stadium seating next week, if not it's off to the art house....

[merwin]

7. Seattle has 2 of those theaters