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Tabloid (2010)

Name: Tabloid
Director: Errol Morris
Genre: documentary film
Rating: 7

Tabloid is a 2010 American documentary film directed by Errol Morris. It tells the story of Joyce McKinney, who was accused of kidnapping and raping Kirk Anderson, an American Mormon missionary in England, in 1977. The incident, known as the Mormon sex in chains case, became a major tabloid story in the United Kingdom and triggered a circulation battle between two popular tabloid newspapers, the Daily Express and…

Directed by Errol Morris · Music by John Kusiak

Behind the scenes

Errol Morris Q&A at Tabloid - DOC NYC 2010 — DOCNYCfest · 14 min

Elsewhere

More by Errol Morris

The Pigeon Tunnel
Separated
Tune Out the Noise
Gates of Heaven — 1978
Vernon, Florida — 1981
The Thin Blue Line — 1988
A Brief History of Time — 1991
The Dark Wind — 1991
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control — 1997
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. — 1999
The Fog of War — 2003
Standard Operating Procedure — 2008
They Were There — 2011
The Unknown Known — 2013
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography — 2016
American Dharma — 2018
CHAOS: The Manson Murders — 2025

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