Directed by:
Michael CuestaScreenplay:
Peter LandesmanCinematography:
Sean BobbittComposer:
Nathan JohnsonCast:
Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rosemarie DeWitt, Oliver Platt, Michael Sheen, Paz Vega, Andy Garcia, Barry Pepper, Ray Liotta (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner ("The Bourne Legacy") leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets...and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. – and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life. (Focus Features)
(more)Cast
![Steve Coulter](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/777/166777778_e47fe9.jpg)
Steve Coulter
USA
Best movies:
The Conjuring (2013)
A Time to Kill (1996)
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
![Lucas Hedges](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/049/165049820_c4ffe2.png)
Lucas Hedges
USA
Best movies:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Mid90s (2018)
![Gil Bellows](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269305_f89a9c.jpg)
Gil Bellows
Canada
Best movies:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Louis Cyr (2013)
Unthinkable (2010)
![E. Roger Mitchell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/744/164744650_d201dc.jpg)
E. Roger Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
Sully (2016)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
American Made (2017)
Jim Keisler
Best movies:
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Radio (2003)
Death Sentence (2007)
![Richard Nixon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/793/161793107_27accb.jpg)
Richard Nixon (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007) - a.f.
The Doors (1991) - a.f.
All the President's Men (1976) - a.f.
![Gerald Ford](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/432/166432349_ce54c8.jpg)
Gerald Ford (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Forrest Gump (1994)
All the President's Men (1976) - a.f.
Frost/Nixon (2008)
![Jimmy Carter](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/901/157901449_d7bf6c.jpg)
Jimmy Carter (a.f.)
USA
![Ronald Reagan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268088_13685b.jpg)
Ronald Reagan (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Storm Warning (1951)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Ted Huckabee
Best movies:
Green Book (2018)
Flight (2012)
Just Mercy (2019)
Aaron Farb
USA
Best movies:
42 (2013)
People Like Us (2012)
Kill the Messenger (2014)
Michael Rose
USA
Best movies:
The Rock (1996)
Zodiac (2007)
Unthinkable (2010)
Andrew Masset
Mexico
Best movies:
Remember the Titans (2000)
Megan Leavey (2017)
Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius (2004)
Michael H. Cole
Best movies:
Front of the Class (2008) (TV movie)
The Good Lie (2014)
42 (2013)
![Jena Sims](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/528/164528258_5ae21c.jpg)
Jena Sims
USA
Best movies:
The Last Movie Star (2017)
Last Vegas (2013)
Kill the Messenger (2014)
Jen Harper
Best movies:
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Kill the Messenger (2014)
Nappily Ever After (2018)
Raul Colon
Best movies:
Iron Man Three (2013)
Ant-Man (2015)
The Leisure Seeker (2017)
David Lee Garver
USA
Best movies:
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997) (TV movie)
Kill the Messenger (2014)