The Post is a 2017 American historical political thriller film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer. It stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the longtime executive editor of The Washington Post. Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, Alison Brie, and Matthew Rhys in supporting roles. The film was chosen by the National Board of Review as the best film of 2017 and was named as one of the top 10 films of the year by Time magazine and the American Film Institute.
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The Post is a 2017 American historical political thriller film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer. It stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the longtime executive editor of The Washington Post. Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, Alison Brie, and Matthew Rhys in supporting roles. The film premiered at the Newseum in Washington, D. C. on December 14, 2017, and went into limited release in the United States on December 22, 2017. It entered wide release on January 12, 2018, and grossed USD 179 million worldwide. The Post was chosen by the National Board of Review as the best film of 2017 and was named as one of the top 10 films of the year by Time magazine and the American Film Institute. It was nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress at the 90th Academy Awards, and received six nominations at the 75th Golden Globe Awards: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Actress – Drama, Best Actor – drama, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score. The story is an exposé of the American government’s long-running deception regarding America’s position in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. In 1971, newspaper heiress Katharine. Graham tries to balance a busy social life with her responsibilities as owner and publisher for the past eight years of The. Washington Post, following the suicide of her husband, the Post’s former publisher, and the death of her father.
Graham lacks journalistic experience and is frequently overruled by her domineering financial advisers and editors, including editor-in-chief BenBradlee and board member Arthur Parsons. A federal district court injunction halts the Times from publishing further articles on the subject. Years later, as a civilian military contractorconsultant working for the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg photocopies hundreds of pages of classified reports documenting the country’s decades-long involvement in Vietnam, dating back to the Truman administration. Ellsberg then leaks these documents first to The New York Times, through reporter Neil Sheehan. The White House retaliates against The Post and says “let’s do it”. The Post’s attorneys advise against publishing the material, lest the Nixon administration file criminal charges. The situation intensifies when the newspaper’s lawyers discover that the source is the same as the Times, possibly putting Graham in contempt of court and potentially destroying her family’s ownership and legacy. Alternately, if the Post could emerge as a significant journalistic institution and increase its reputation in court, the legal challenges are overcome. The movie received positive reviews; critics praised the performances and the film’s references and allusions to the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump. The film received six Golden Globe Award nominations.
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