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State of Play
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
2009 · Directed by Kevin Macdonald · 127 min · Thriller · Crime · Mystery · 12 frames
Tagline
Find the truth
Crew
- Screenplay: Tony Gilroy, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Billy Ray
- Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto
- Edited by: Justine Wright
- Music: Alex Heffes
- Production design: Mark Friedberg
- Produced by: Kwame Parker, Eric Fellner, Eric Hayes, Andrew Hauptman
Cast
- Russell Crowe as Cal McAffrey
- Ben Affleck as Stephen Collins
- Rachel McAdams as Della Frye
- Helen Mirren as Cameron Lynne
- Robin Wright as Anne Collins
- Jason Bateman as Dominic Foy
- Jeff Daniels as George Fergus
- Michael Berresse as Robert Bingham
- Harry Lennix as Det. Donald Bell
- Josh Mostel as Pete
Production
- Country: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English, Cantonese, French
- Studios: Andell Entertainment, Working Title, StudioCanal, Relativity Media
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $87,800,000
- Themes: newspaper, journalist, assassin, assassination, washington dc, usa, government, corruption, congress, election campaign, politics
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