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Kill the Messenger
Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to fact-based conspiracy dramas about courageous whistleblowers confronting powerful institutions and the machinery of disinformation.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- unease, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- investigative journalism, government corruption, media intimidation, institutional power, truth
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, California newsrooms and clandestine international networks
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