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The film takes place in the mid-1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the U.S. that was aggressively sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras' rebel army.
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Kill the Messenger (2014) is a captivating and thought-provoking film that chronicles the real-life story of Gary Webb, a journalist who uncovered a CIA plot to fund the Contras in Nicaragua by selling cocaine in the inner cities of America.
The intent of the film, and its timeliness, are beyond reproach, but that doesn't make Kill the Messenger as stirring or inspiring of indignation as it clearly wants to be. See all 36 reviews on Metacritic.com
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I was twenty-two. It was a stupid little feature, but I was proud of it. I put it in a frame and hung it on my wall. And believed I joined a secret guild of reporters that day. If there was ever a believer, it was me. My last story was about a police horse in Cupertino, California who died of constipation.
Kill the Messenger: Directed by Dennis Smith. With Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray. A Navy Commander is murdered near the White House, it is learned that he was on his way to talk to the President.
Paved the way, you might say, as the traffic grew - and grew. Gary Webb : Well someone in Washington knows what you do, and is doing nothing to stop it. John Cullen : It's all lies and corruption, Gary. You become attracted to the power, then you become addicted to the power, then you're devoured by the power.
Kill the Messenger: Directed by Michael Cuesta. With Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo. Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contras/freedom fighters in Nicaragua.
