Kara Swisher's Favorite Films About Journalism
by IMDb-Editors | created - 1 month ago | updated - 1 month ago | PublicRenowned tech writer Kara Swisher spoke to IMDb at SXSW 2024 and shared her favorite films about journalism.
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1. All the President's Men (1976)
PG | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam
Votes: 126,017 | Gross: $70.60M
It was a great book and it was a better movie, actually. It depicted the hunt of a story and was just great, thrilling, exciting. It holds up. I just watched it recently, and it was fantastic.
2. Spotlight (I) (2015)
R | 129 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 502,054 | Gross: $45.06M
It showed sort of how to tackle journalism and made it interesting, about the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church in Boston. A really terrific movie.
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
R | 106 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone
Votes: 56,146 | Gross: $8.80M
This one is about plagiarism. Melissa McCarthy was fantastic. She had kind of that dyspeptic, journalist-y kind of writer thing and I thought that was great.
4. American Fiction (2023)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
Director: Cord Jefferson | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander
Votes: 75,158
I have to say 'American Fiction,' which is not about journalism, it's about writing. I think it's the unsung movie of this year. I did a good interview with Cord Jefferson, who wrote it. It's perfection, as a movie.
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