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The Post
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The Post (2017)

Drama
Rated PG-13
115 min.
Release Date
December 22, 2017 (Limited)
January 12, 2018
DVD Release Date
April 17, 2018 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Liz Hannah
Cast
Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Whitford, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Alison Brie, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Michael Stuhlbarg, Zach Woods
Running Time
115 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for language and brief war violence

Steven Spielberg to direct Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in a film about the Pentagon Papers controversy. The story will follow the 1971 scandal after the decision of The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) and publisher Katharine Graham (Streep) to publish The Pentagon Papers. Written and leaked by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers established that the Johnson Administration had lied to the public and congress about US military involvement in the Vietnam... Full synopsis »

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“I’m going to go to bed now.” That, my friends, may be one of the most satisfying lines of dialogue you’ll hear all year, and it comes from the dagger lips of Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg’s latest, the entertaining, fast-paced, timely, feminist, important, award-caliber drama The Post. Full movie review »
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