Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck. takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950’s America. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television news man Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations (Government Operations Committee). With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff – headed by his producer Fred Friendly (George Clooney) and Joe Wershba (Robert Downey Jr.) in the CBS newsroom – defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist ‘witch-hunts.’ A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on regardless, and their tenacity eventually pays off when McCarthy is brought before the Senate and made powerless as his lies and bullying tactics are finally uncovered.
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- Distributor
- Warner Independent Pictures
- Director
- George Clooney
- Writers
- George Clooney, Grant Heslov
- Producers
- Grant Heslov
- Executive Producers
- Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Marc Butan, Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Fox, Ben Cosgrove, Jeff Skoll, Chris Salvaterra Cast: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella, Ray Wise, Grant Heslov, Jeff Daniels
- Awards & Nominations
- Academy Award® nomination for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (David Strathairn), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction
