(PCM) Can you keep a national secret? That’s the question Focus Features’ is asking on the poster for the biographical drama/thriller Kill the Messenger, starring Jeremy Renner and opening in theaters nationwide October 17 and 24.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legacy) leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb.
Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets…and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua.
Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications.
His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. – and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.
Starring alongside Jeremy Renner are Rosemarie DeWitt, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, Barry Pepper, Oliver Platt, Michael Sheen, Paz Vega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Andy Garcia.
Kill the Messenger is directed by Primetime Emmy winner Michael Cuesta (TV’s Dexter and Homeland) and is written by Peter Landesman (Trade, Parkland), based on the books Dark Alliance by Gary Webb and Kill the Messenger by Nick Shou. Kill the Messenger opens in select theaters on October 10 before expanding to theaters nationwide on October 17 and 24! Watch the trailer below and visit the official site for more info!Kill the Messenger has a run time of 1 hour and 52 minutes and is rated R for language and drug content.
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