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State of Play (2009)

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Release Date: April 17, 2009
On DVD: September 1, 2009
Genre: Suspense, Drama, Crime
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Writer: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Billy Ray
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels, Helen Mirren
Studio: Universal Pictures
Official site: stateofplaymovie.net
Running Time: 118 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some violence, language including sexual references, and brief drug content.

Oscar winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McAffrey, whose street smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder and collusion among some of the nation's most promising political and corporate figures in "State of Play," from acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald ("The Last King of Scotland").

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The summer movies have yet to arrive, but 2009 has already treated us with a few surprises. State of Play, the political thriller starring Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jeff Daniels and Ben Affleck, is the best of the year thus far and could find its way into the Top Ten when all is said and done.

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