Shock and Awe

"The truth matters!"

Jul 20 2018 R 1h 30m
Biography, Drama, History

A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

Plot

On 9/11 2001, the World Trade Center is destroyed by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization. In the resulting tumult, the reporters of the Knight-Ridder news service, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel under the editorship of John Walcott, hear odd reports that President Bush's senior administration is not so much concerned with finding the Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, as they are in blaming the secular dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. Despite their intelligence sources saying that Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, the K-R reporters discover that the White House is obsessed with finding any excuse to attack Iraq with cherry-picking intelligence reports and blatant lies by its officials. As the journalists dig deeper, their competitors uncritically repeat the Bush Administration's falsehoods that too much of the public is gullible enough to believe, making their quest to find and print the truth proves as a frustrating struggle as events barrel to a needless war.

Written by

Joey Hartstone

Directed by

Rob Reiner

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Acacia Filmed Entertainment, Savvy Media Holdings, Castle Rock Entertainment

Languages

English, Italiano

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
9,082
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
47
Popularity
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