State of Play

PG-13

4/17/20092h 7m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Find the truth ~

Overview:

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

Director:

Kevin Macdonald

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$60,000,000.00

Revenue:

$87,800,000.00

Key words:

newspaper
journalist
assassin
assassination
washington dc, usa
government
corruption
congress
election campaign
politics
detective
editor-in-chief
blog
murder
reporter
u.s. congress
investigative journalism
usa politics

Cast

Russell Crowe

~ as ~

Cal McAffrey

Ben Affleck

~ as ~

Stephen Collins

Rachel McAdams

~ as ~

Della Frye

Helen Mirren

~ as ~

Cameron Lynne

Robin Wright

~ as ~

Anne Collins

Jason Bateman

~ as ~

Dominic Foy

Jeff Daniels

~ as ~

George Fergus

Michael Berresse

~ as ~

Robert Bingham

Harry Lennix

~ as ~

Det. Donald Bell

Josh Mostel

~ as ~

Pete

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Reviews (2)

AG
Andres Gomez
Written 11 year(s) ago
8
Good movie, great cast and interesting plot.

A movies as they used to be when interesting thrillers were on the screens with higher frequency.
Peter McGinn
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
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.