Director: Rupert Goold
Writers: Michael Finkel (memoir),
Rupert Goold (screenplay)
Stars: James Franco,
Jonah Hill,
Felicity Jones
Storyline
Jonah Hill plays Michael Finkel, a recently terminated New York Times
journalist who's struggling for work after a story gone wrong. One day,
he receives a phone call from a man regarding an FBI Most Wanted
individual named Christian Longo, who's been captured and claimed to be
living as Finkel. Longo and Finkel meet and form a potentially marriage
shattering bond while Longo is in prison awaiting his trial. Finkel
exchanges journalism tips for the real events behind Longo's alleged
heinous acts of murdering his family. Through the twists and turns in
the movie, only at the end will Finkel uncover the True Story.
User Reviews
The
issue of journalistic integrity comes to the fore in this excellent
story about two men who form an unlikely and bizarre friendship. Both
men are emotionally damaged, both have had run-ins with authority and
each identifies with the other. That one is disgraced journalist and the
other a mass murderer makes the story even more intense. The movie
brings out how emotions can distort reasoning and cause people to
project all kinds of feelings onto another until truth becomes blurred.
It is the blurring of the truth that takes place here. The movie does an
outstanding job of showing how, in defiance of the intense pressure
that was being applied to both men to end their communications, the
friendship evolves. It occurs in stages. The details of how it happens
and how it effects both men is what this movie is about. Jonah Hill and
James Franco are outstanding in their respective roles as the journalist
and the mass murderer. For further details, watch the movie.
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