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The Post
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7.0A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Kay Graham
- Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee
- Sarah Paulson as Tony Bradlee
- Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian
- Tracy Letts as Fritz Beebe
- Bradley Whitford as Arthur Parsons
Themes
- vietnam war
- newspaper
- journalist
- washington dc, usa
- politics
- 1970s
- journalism
- grave
- biography
- based on true story
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
171,711 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
83/100
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, History
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 21 wins & 116 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Steven Spielberg
- Written by
- Josh Singer Liz Hannah
- Produced by
- Steven Spielberg Kristie Macosko Krieger Amy Pascal
- Starring
- Meryl Streep Tom Hanks Sarah Paulson Bob Odenkirk Tracy Letts Bradley Whitford Bruce Greenwood Matthew Rhys
- Cinematography
- Janusz Kamiński
- Edited by
- Michael Kahn Sarah Broshar
- Music by
- John Williams
- Production companies
- 20th Century Fox DreamWorks Pictures Participant Media Amblin Partners Amblin Entertainment Pascal Pictures Star Thrower Entertainment
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release dates
- December 14, 2017 ( 2017-12-14 ) ( Newseum ) December 22, 2017 ( 2017-12-22 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 116 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $179.8 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 244589
- Official website
- www.foxmovies.com/movies/the-post
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- publication date
- 2018-01-12
- title
- The Post
- social media followers
- 4754
- review score
- 83/100
- capital cost
- 50000000
- box office
- 193764664
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The Post is a 2017 American political thriller film about The Washington Post and the publication of the Pentagon Papers. It was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer. It stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, with Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, Alison Brie, and Matthew Rhys in supporting roles.
Set in 1971, The Post depicts the true story of attempts by journalists at The Washington Post to publish the infamous Pentagon Papers, a set of classified documents regarding the 20-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War and earlier in French Indochina back to the 1940s.