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Simply Perfect

How sad is this?

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Blanchett! Blanchett! Blanchett! (Over-dramatisation of ending takes away from mostly measured, cerebral tone of the rest of the film. Maybe more affecting for American audiences where Dan Rather appears to be almost presidential. His final speech to camera was over-blown.) (viewed 1/17)

This is a dramatization of the events that lead to the resignation of Dan Rather(Robert Redford) and firing of Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) of CBS news/ 60 Minutes. It shows us how the reporters gathered the Bush air force reserve story and were rushed to meet a deadline. About a third of the way through Rather canonizes Mary Mapes by telling us her biography. The production includes scenes where they have to tell her the resume of Dick Thornburgh, something that most likely didn't happen but was done for us "stupids" in the audience.Redford did a good job. You could close your eyes and see Dan Rather when he spoke. Nailed it. Blanchett did a convincing job of Mary Mapes, a woman who depicted as a hard and honest worker with daddy issues. Since Mapes wrote the book on which they based the script, expect to see a story told from her viewpoint. People who "are now or have ever been a liberal" might enjoy this film more than a conservative.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

This is a dramatic re-creation of the fall from grace of CBS news anchor Dan Rather (Robert Redford). Controversy swells after erroneous reporting is blamed on newscaster Dan Rather and his CBS News head Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) following a segment on 60 Minutes exposing how President George W. Bush received preferential treatment to avoid being drafted to the Vietnam War. The aftermath's bottom line cost their highly respected jobs. The R rated presentation also features a cast including: Dennis Quaid, Elisabeth Moss, Topher Grace, Dermont Mulroney, Stacy Keach, Bruce Greenwood and Rachel Blake.

It's 2004. Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) is a producer for CBS's 60 Minutes and a longtime contributor to legendary anchor Dan Rather (Robert Redford). She is working on a story about President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard. She recruits Mike Smith (Topher Grace), Lucy Scott (Elisabeth Moss), and Colonel Roger Charles (Dennis Quaid) to work on the story. Bill Burkett (Stacy Keach) brings them collaborating memos. They are pushed to rush the story to air and almost immediately after the airing, bloggers are claiming that the memos are fake.It's an important moment in journalism and the world. It certainly tells the story more in-depth than I knew during that time. Honestly, all I remember from the incident are the fake documents. It's an even more compelling story than that. In the end, it doesn't answer the glaring question in the center of storm. It needs to settle the authenticity of the memos. Mary Mapes mentions looking for the typewriter. The movie needs to find the typewriter(s) that could have made the document to wrap up the narrative. The acting is superb led by Cate Blanchett. The story is detailed and understandable. It's a brave new world.