Fifth Estate
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The Fifth Estate
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, "The Fifth Estate" reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruption of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?"
Genre
Bio-pic,
Drama
Web Site
Runtime
124
Language
English
Director
Bill Condon
Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Stanley Tucci,
Anthony Mackie,
Dan Stevens,
Alicia Vikander,
David Thewlis
FEATURED REVIEW
Matthew Turner, ViewLondon
‘The Fifth Estate’ is an engaging and enjoyable retelling of the WikiLeaks story with an astonishing central performance from Benedict Cumberbatch, but the script sticks to the surface of the story and there's nothing here that wasn't covered in the recent documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of ...
Played at
Claremont 5 10.18.13 - 10.31.13
NoHo 7 10.18.13 - 10.31.13
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