Screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, and Billy RayDirected by Kevin Macdonald
Russell Crowe
Ben Affleck
Rachel McAdams
Helen Mirren
Premiere date: April 17, 2009
PG-13 for some violence, language including sexual references, and brief drug content.
Cal McCaffrey is an old-school-style journalist working for the Washington Globe. He begins to investigate the death of a young woman who was the research assistant and mistress of his friend Stephen Collins, an ambitious congressman whose career is likely ruined when his affair is revealed. Joined by young political blogger Della Frye, Cal races against time and deadlines to solve the murder, which may be only a small part of a much larger crime.
