Could actor-writer-director George Clooney's smart reenactment of the 50-year-old fracas between a courageous newsman and a paranoid, power-mad U.S. senator be the most politically relevant Hollywood film of 2005? It just might: The on-air brawl in question was waged between the legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow (played with astonishing fidelity by David Strathairn) and Joseph McCarthy, the junior senator from Wisconsin whose crusade to root out "card-carrying Communists" from the U.S. government led to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) witch-hunts. By 1953, a dissatisfied Murrow is dividing his time between the hard news he delivers on his live-in-t...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG
Length:
90 mins