Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nic... Read allJournalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations
Joshua Close
- Rich Kline
- (as Josh Close)
Clay Edmund Kraski
- DEA Agent Jones
- (as Clay Kraski)
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- TriviaVarious members of the cast and crew have admitted to receiving government-level "push back" to the film, both during filming and in post-production.
- GoofsJerry Ceppos announces that Gary has been named the National Press Association's Journalist of the Year. There is no such thing as the National Press Association. He was named Journalist of the Year by the Bay Area Society of Professional Journalists. This is why he is speaking at the SPJ awards at the end of the film.
- Crazy creditsJust before the closing credits, there is a short video showing the real Gary Webb at home with his children.
- SoundtracksBring It On Home
Written by Tommy Girvin and Don Cromwell
Performed by Ransom
Courtesy of 474 Records and Music Supervisor Inc.
Featured review
Really liked the whole thing. A great drama.
It was a movie that made me think, as it involved a different angle to a subject that I knew something about.
The trailer suggest that the movie is about the true story of Gary Webb's article that suggest the CIA were evolved with drug dealing as a way to fund a war in the 1980's, but as the title of the movie described the people read the article and ran with their own conspiracies which lead to a CIA cover up that lead to Webb's downward spiral.
It is an Intriguing tell of a journalist trying to keep his integrity while forces were trying to ruin it to keep their own.
Jeremy Renner drove his acting vehicle well, not well enough in my opinion to win an Oscar or anything, but it proves that he can headline anything.
Definitely a good movie to sit through.
The trailer suggest that the movie is about the true story of Gary Webb's article that suggest the CIA were evolved with drug dealing as a way to fund a war in the 1980's, but as the title of the movie described the people read the article and ran with their own conspiracies which lead to a CIA cover up that lead to Webb's downward spiral.
It is an Intriguing tell of a journalist trying to keep his integrity while forces were trying to ruin it to keep their own.
Jeremy Renner drove his acting vehicle well, not well enough in my opinion to win an Oscar or anything, but it proves that he can headline anything.
Definitely a good movie to sit through.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,450,846
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $941,809
- Oct 12, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $5,218,973
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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