The film is directed by Steven Spielberg, director who He gained notoriety as an uncredited assistant editor on the classic western Caravana (1957). Among his early directing efforts were Battle Squad (1961), which combined World War II footage with footage of an airplane on the ground that he makes you believe is moving. He also directed Escape to Nowhere (1961), which featured children as World War Two soldiers, including his sister Anne Spielberg, and The Last Gun (1959), a western. All of these were short films. The next couple of years, Spielberg directed a couple of movies that would portend his future career in movies. In 1964, he directed Firelight (1964), a movie about aliens invading a small town. In 1967, he directed Slipstream (1967), which was unfinished. However, in 1968, he directed Amblin' (1968), which featured the desert prominently, and not the first of his movies in which the desert would feature so prominently. Amblin' also became the name of his production company, which turned out such classics as E.T. El extraterrestre (1982). Spielberg had a unique and classic early directing project, El diablo sobre ruedas (1971), with Dennis Weaver. In the early 1970s, Spielberg was working on TV, directing among others such series as Rod Serling's Galería nocturna (1969), Marcus Welby (1969) and Colombo: Homicidio de acuerdo con el libro (1971). All of his work in television and short films, as well as his directing projects, were just a hint of the wellspring of talent that would dazzle audiences all over the world.
WHAT'S THE STORY? THE POST follows the early '70s events leading up to the controversial publication of a classified study about the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers in the Washington Post, after it was first leaked to the New York Times. When Post political reporter Ben Bagdikian (Bob Odenkirk) discovers that source Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) has the same leaked documents the Times reported, Bagdikian brings a copy to his editor, Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks). Bradlee must convince publisher Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) to publish articles that reveal how many administrations knew that America's involvement in the Vietnam War was futile. Graham trusts Bradlee but is cautioned by others against allowing him to publish, because it puts the paper's financial future at risk -- and opens her up to prosecution from the Nixon administration.
MOVIE INFO Rating: PG-13 (for language and brief war violence) Genre: Drama, Mystery & Suspense Directed By: Steven Spielberg Written By: Liz Hannah, Josh Singer In theaters: December 22, 2017 Runtime: 115 minutes Music: John Williams Studio: 20th Century Fox Cast: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Bruce Greenwood, David Cross, Tracy Letts, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Stark Sands, Zach Woods, Jon Donahue, Bradley Whitford, Jessie Mueller
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