Truth

Great actors, intriguing docudrama for me (I'm well over 30) - good enough to leave me angry and disturbed. I wanted to know more about this chapter of our history. Blanchett superb as always and Redford captured essence of Rather.. Recommended unless you are a conservative/Bush lover of such magnitude as to be offended by the implications of this. I just read comments and history of this movie in wikipedia, and I feel it is sad that it is as if the shutdown of questions and answers that were successfully achieved by powers at be in 2004 now continue to the review of this movie - take a look at footnotes to see the political persuasions of those whose statements composed this summary.

It was a cold December day here in sunny Northeast Florida.A guy is playing with his pit bull on the green grass in the yard below the porch of our upstairs condo. He tells me he named his dog “Walter Cronkite” because his parents used to watch the newsman religiously in the 1970’s. “Cron” for short.If I had a dog, I would name him “Dan Rather”…”Rath” for short.The other night I watched a movie about the downfall of my favorite anchorman Dan Rather from the grace of CBS. “Truth” is a 2015 American political documentary film written and directed by James Vanderbilt in his directorial debut. It is based on American journalist and television news producer Mary Mapes’ memoir “Truth and Duty: The Press, the President and the Privilege of Power.”The film focuses on “a “60 Minutes II” story that ran on national television in the months before the US 2004 presidential election. It purported that then-president-and-candidate George W. Bush not only dodged service in Vietnam but didn’t serve time in the Texas Air National Guard, his assigned duty to avoid combat. The "news" is rushed and not well researched and results in last days for news anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes at CBS News. Cate Blanchett plays Mapes and Robert Redford is Rather.At times, Redford looked very much like Rather. He gave a remarkable performance

First of all I would like to say I'm not a big news watcher but I actually stumbled on to this movie just channel surfing. I watched and was very interested in it. I didn't know anything about the Dan Rather firing nor did I even know that he was fired. ( Totally oblivious to what goes on in this world) this movie was a total mystery to me. I got sucked in and I loved it. Some people say that it was too slow a movie but I liked it. I learned a lot from this movie and after watching it, I looked more into it and really came to understand the situation. I had to buy this movie and every time I watch it I learn something new

This movie is based upon the account of the controversy brought about by a 60 Minutes story that CBS ran from Mary Mapes and it is portrayed from her point of view. The movie does bring up some disconcerting facts about powerful people and the abuse of that power. Depending on how you feel about the people portrayed in this account of that story will play into how you feel about this movie. It brings up a lot of questions about how reporters get their stories and their responsibility to insure their accuracy even if it means giving up on story that may be true but is not verifiable. When compared to a movie like Spotlight whose principals went to great lengths to verify a truth that needed to be told, this story to me shows that 60 Minutes failed to meet that standard although their story was possibly the Truth. If Mary Mapes was trying to show how she was unjustly scapegoated by CBS, it missed the mark to me.

1. The reason this story interested me (face value) were the actors. Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford.2. Once I watched the Trailer, and saw the supporting actors, I thought this movie was worth a look.3. I did not recall the event, and I realize that these can be sensationalized for entertainment value.4. I truly enjoyed this movie. I think it's worth the time as it depicts the media feeding frenzy that occurred then and still occurs when it comes to a news worthy story. The vultures come out to scavenge. Unfortunately, passionate journalists become the scapegoat. That's a shame.5. Historically speaking, the "truth" of the story became irrelevant. That's a shame.6. Otherwise, I think this is a well written, superbly acted movie and worth the time to watch it.

The point of acting is to portray a character. Redford was a horrible choice to play Rather. He didn't even try to change his voice, the color of his hair, the cadence of his speech or anything that would make me believe he is Rather. I typically like historical political movies, but I couldn't like this one. I found it too wordy, it felt extremely rehearsed and you didn't feel like the actors actually were the characters, but rather a bunch of people who are paid to memorize long strings of words and regurgitate them on camera. Blanchett's character was the only believable one, but unfortunately her performance wasn't enough to keep me interested.

Well-done take on Dan Rather's 60 Minutes expose of Dubya Bush's "war record", and the hell it opened for Rather, Mapes, and CBS when their sources caved and recanted. For those who believe that our press is truly "free" it's an eye-opener. This kind of retaliation and fear thereof - "cold terror" - goes far to explain the knee-jerk, oo-rah consensus for the hot war on terror. Redford's performance is rather wooden and stodgy, but in "truth" he's not the star here. Cate Blanchett excels as the driven, at times hysterical, Mary Mapes, who has more than one score to settle.

I very well love this movie. Cate Blanchett was out-of-this-world, very good as Mary Mapes.even though Redford wasn't the main focus of the movie, so to speak he was good.cause it was mostly on Mary and the information she got that determine both there future.just goes to show you how people leave you out to dry..when the going gets tough don't hang on. blame others.Runtime 125 Min.Widescreen 2.35:1English 5.1 DTS-HD Master.

"Spotlight" raconte une enquête de journalistes (sur la pédophilie du clergé catholique) qui a l'immense mérite de prendre son temps avant de commencer à publier. Leur dossier est tellement solide que le château de cartes s'écroule et que le scandale est bien pire que ce qui avait été dévoilé au départ.Dans "Truth", les journalistes pensent détenir la vérité sur ce qu'avait réellement fait Georges W. Bush pendant son service militaire. Et ils veulent que tout le monde le sache avant sa ré-élection.Or, dans cette période corrompue où le lobby militaro-industriel gagnera des fortunes avec la guerre d'Irak, tandis que d'autres gagneront des fortunes dans le crédit immobilier et la vente des "subprimes", beaucoup d'hommes politiques (dont le financement dépends des lobbies) voulaient éviter les vagues... et celle-ci aurait été monumentale.Si cette journaliste avait pu révéler le scandale des tortures de la prison d'Abou Ghraib, il avait été étouffé en faisant porter le chapeau aux lampistes de cette prison et en évitant surtout de parler du vrai scandale qui a été la légalisation de la torture par le gouvernement de Georges W. Bush.Ce qui me frappe dans cette histoire, c'est la naïveté de la journaliste incarnée par Kate Blanchett. Elle est tellement persuadée que l'Amérique a besoin de savoir la vérité... qu'elle y sacrifiera sa carrière.Quand on regarde l'histoire de cette période, on peut voir qu'aucun des responsables des scandales qui ont ruiné l'Amérique n'a fini en prison.L'Amérique sait traiter des scandales locaux comme celui soulevé par "Spotlight" parce qu'il soulève les dérives du catholicisme dans un pays à majorité protestante. Et aussi parce que le directeur du Boston Globe a été assez intelligent pour cibler sa critique sur le "système" et non sur des personnes.En Amérique, il y a un tabou sur la personne du président. Et ça, Mary Mapes ne voulait pas le savoir...

Great movie, great acting by Robert Redford and crew. I heartily recommend this movie as an antidote to the mindless gratuitoua violence being served up to the viewer today.

Trasposizione cinematografica di una storia vera,il cinema americano,questo cinema riporta alla luce i fatti scomodi,da noi non succede quasi mai,interpretazione di Robert Redford e Cate Blanchett magistrale sopratutto quest'ultima.....da vedere e da avere

la vicenda narrata nel libro di Mary Mapes è resa in questo film in modo drammaticamente coinvolgente ed emozionante, grazie anche ad un cast di attori eccellenti e di grande fama.