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Good Night, And Good Luck (PG)
- Consumer Advice: Contains mild language, mild threat and persecution theme
- Run time: 1 hour 33 mins
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 17th February 2006
- Starring: Rose Abdoo, Alex Borstein, Robert John Burke
- Directed by: George Clooney
- Official Website: wip.warnerbros.com/goodnightgoodluck
- Distributor: Redbus Film Distribution
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Plot Synopsis
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 pioneer Edward R. Murrow (DAVID STRATHAIRN) and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, the ground-breaking Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly (GEORGE CLOONEY) and (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 tenaciousness eventually pays off when McCarthy is brought before the Senate and made powerless as his lies and bullying tactics are finally uncovered.
Yet Murrow and his team have paid a high price and the show is shifted to a lesser time slot. Their legacy, however, has remained intact and even reverberates today as the standard for high quality broadcast journalism.
“GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.” was written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by George Clooney. Produced by Grant Heslov, the film’s executive producers are Steven Soderbergh, Ben Cosgrove, Jennifer Fox, Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Marc Butan and Jeff Skoll.