State Of Play

Watched With: Nobody @ FilmGarde KLP (11/06)
Snacks: None
Genre: Political Drama / Thriller

Did anyone watch the original British mini-series?
I didn't.

Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is leading an investigation against PointCorp, a private military contractor. And on the morning of a conference, his lead resercher Sonia Baker (Maria Thayer) is killed.

Collins was having an affair with Sonia and approaches his street-smart college buddy because he thinks that she did not commit suicide and was killed.
Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) is a reporter for the Washington Globe newspaper and decides he'll check things out as a favour to an old friend whose wife Anne Collins (Robin Wright Penn) he also happens to be college friends with.

Together with rookie reporter Della Frye (Rachel McAdams) and newspaper head honcho Cameron Lynne (Helen Mirren), they uncover facts that point towards a political conspiracy.
And more and more innocent people are getting killed because of this cover-up which involves PointCorp, a senator George Fergus (Jeff Daniels), a PR rep and friend of Sonia's Dominic Foy (Jason Bateman) and mysterious shooter who seems to be cleaning up someone's mess.

Can McAffrey uncover the truth? Does he really want to?

This movie is based on the British 6-part miniseries of the same name and same storyline. But of course, in this American version they've squeezed all 6-parts into a 2 hour long movie.
So you can expect that you'll have to really pay attention to details else you might get lost in the many different characters involved.

But if you have no problems keeping up then this movie's pretty interesting to try and solve.

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