EditThe Post (2017)

OPLEV TO AF VOR TIDS STØRSTE SKUESPILLERE SAMMEN FOR FØRSTE GANG! Selveste Steven Spielberg står bag filmatiseringen af denne sande historie. Året er 1971 og en række lækkede CIA-dokumenter, de såkaldte Pentagon Papers, viser, at USA’s skiftende præsidenter i årevis har løjet om Vietnam-krigen. Nu er det op til pressen at træffe en svær beslutning: Skal man publicere den belastende historie om den siddende præsident Nixon og risikere en ruinerende retssag? Midt i dette dilemma finder vi Katherine Graham (Streep), der som ny og usikker kvindelig chef for The Washington Post har alt at miste, og chefredaktør Ben Bradlee (Hanks), hvis ambition om at gøre avisen mere relevant bringer ham på kollisionskurs med USA’s præsident.

Let’s first say that this is a Steven Spielberg production, starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks - a guarantee for a movie worth watching. As Spielberg said: "when I read the first draft of the script, this wasn't something that could wait three years or two years - this was a story I felt we needed to tell today”. And it is a compelling drama indeed, moreover, made in a very short time. The USA’s first female newspaper publisher and a rebellious editor, join forces trying to reveal dirty military secrets, kept hidden by three governments. Who will have the final word and will the press be able to put 30 years of lying to an end?