Cal McAffrey
Russell Crowe
Cal McAffrey
Overview
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
Trailer
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Cast
Stephen Collins
Ben Affleck
Stephen Collins
Della Frye
Rachel McAdams
Della Frye
Cameron Lynne
Helen Mirren
Cameron Lynne
Anne Collins
Robin Wright
Anne Collins
Dominic Foy
Jason Bateman
Dominic Foy
George Fergus
Jeff Daniels
George Fergus
Robert Bingham
Michael Berresse
Robert Bingham
Det. Donald Bell
Harry Lennix
Det. Donald Bell
Pete
Josh Mostel
Pete
Hank
Michael Weston
Hank
Gene Stavitz
Barry Shabaka Henley
Gene Stavitz
Reviews
Andres Gomez
Good movie, great cast and interesting plot. A movies as they used to be when interesting thrillers were on the screens with higher frequency.
Read full reviewPeter McGinn
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.
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