Based on Mary Mapes’ book
Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power,
Truth recounts the television news scandal that cost the award-winning producer her job at CBS and quite possibly aided President George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection. Two months before that election, Mapes (Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett) and legendary journalist Dan Rather (Robert Redford) air a segment on
60 Minutes alleging that the 43rd President of the United Stated received special treatment that allowed him to successfully dodge the Vietnam War draft
—a claim that is met with questions of authenticity and suspicion of political bias. This riveting drama reveals what went on behind the scenes of a report that was a game changer in ways neither Mapes nor Rather could have anticipated. Co-starring Dennis Quaid, Elisabeth Moss, and Topher Grace,
Truth is the directorial debut of screenwriter James Vanderbilt (
Zodiac,
The Amazing Spider-Man).
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