The Report is a new docudrama film. It follows the Senate Intelligence Committee as they investigate the CIA’s use of torture following the September 11 attacks.
So let’s dive into some more trivia and facts about the movie!
- The Report is a 2019 American docudrama film
- It is also known as The Torture Report
- It is written and directed by Scott Z. Burns
- Starring Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Ted Levine, Michael C. Hall, Tim Blake Nelson, Corey Stoll, Maura Tierney and Jon Hamm
- The plot follows staffer Daniel J. Jones and the Senate Intelligence Committee as they investigate the CIA’s use of torture following the September 11 attacks
- It covers more than a decade’s worth of real-life political intrigue
- Exploring and compacting Jones’s 6,700-page report
- Burns had previously written the fact-based films The Informant! and Contagion
- The Report had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019
- It is scheduled to be theatrically released on November 15, 2019, by Amazon Studios
- Before streaming on Amazon Prime beginning November 29
- Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones is tasked with leading an investigation into the CIA’s systematic torture of terrorist suspects in the years following the September 11 attacks
- The investigation concludes that the so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA were brutal, immoral, and ineffective forms of torture
- And that the CIA routinely misrepresented these facts to policymakers
- When the Senate Intelligence Committee attempts to publish their findings, they have to contend with the CIA and White House’s attempts to block and undermine the report
- The project was announced in April 2018 with Scott Z. Burns directing and writing
- And Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Morrison signed on to star
- The film began production on April 16, 2018 in New York
- With Tim Blake Nelson, Ben McKenzie, Matthew Rhys, Ted Levine and Michael C. Hall added to the cast the following month
- In June 2018, Maura Tierney joined the cast
- It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019
- Shortly after, Amazon Studios acquired distribution rights to the film
- In October 2019, it will appear as a spotlight film at the Hamptons International Film Festival
- It is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on November 15, 2019
- Before being released on Prime Video two weeks later on November 29
- It was previously scheduled for respective September 27 and October 11 releases
- On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 87%
- Based on 60 reviews
- With an average rating of 7.84/10
- The website’s critical consensus reads, “The Report draws on a dark chapter in American history to offer a sober, gripping account of one public servant’s crusade for accountability”
- On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100
- Based on 10 critics
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
- In August 2019, Human Rights First announced that it will award the 2019 Sidney Lumet Award for Integrity in Entertainment to The Report at the organization’s annual award dinner on October 28 in New York City
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