Truth (2015)

Truth (2015)

NAME OF FILM: TRUTH (2015)

DIRECTOR(S): James Vanderbilt

STARRING: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Elisabeth Moss and Dennis Quaid

GENRE: Biography Film

SYNOPSIS: Based on the book “Truth and Duty” by Mary Mapes that tells the incredible true story of Mary Mapes (played by Cate Blanchett), an award-winning CBS News Journalist and Dan Rather’s producer, who broke the Abu-Ghraib prison abuse story, among others. The film chronicles the story Mapes and Rather uncovered that a sitting US president may have been AWOL from the United States National Guard for over a year during the Vietnam War. When the story blew up in their face, the ensuing scandal ruined Dan Rather’s career, nearly changed a US Presidential election, and almost took down all of CBS News in the process. The film is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.