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Vice (2018)*

Title: Vice
Rating: R
Directed by: Adam McKay
Written by: Adam McKay
Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, Tyler Perry, Justin Kirk, LisaGay Hamilton, Shea Whigham, and Eddie Marsan
Release Date: 12/25/2018
Running Time: 132 minutes

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Spanning a half-century, Cheney’s (Christian Bale) complex journey from rural Wyoming electrical worker to de facto President of the United States is a darkly comic and often unsettling inside look at the use and misuse of institutional power. In McKay’s capable hands, the dichotomy between Cheney, the dedicated family man and political puppet master, is related with intimacy, wit and narrative daring. Guided by his formidable and unfailingly loyal wife, Lynne (Amy Adams) and mentored by the brusque and blustery Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell), Cheney insinuated himself into the Washington D.C. fabric beginning with the Nixon administration, becoming White House Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford, and after five terms in Congress, Secretary of Defense for George H.W. Bush. In 2000, he left his position as C.E.O. of Halliburton to run as Vice President to George W. Bush (Sam Rockwell) with the implicit understanding that he would exercise almost unchecked control, a co-president in all but name.

Cheney’s cunning and furtive political maneuvering have altered the American political landscape in ways that will continue to reverberate for decades to come. But it is clear there is more than one Dick Cheney, a man whose reputation in the public Spector belies his private life and obvious devotion to his family.


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Big Short, The (2015)*

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Title: The Big Short
Rating: R
Directed by: Adam McKay
Written by: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph
Based on the book by: Michael Lewis
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Karen Gillan, Margot Robbie and Marisa Tomei
Release Date: 12/23/2015
Running Time: 130 minutes

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Four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s decide to take on the big banks for their lack of foresight and greed.


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Get Hard (2015)

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Title: Get Hard
Rating: R
Director: Etan Cohen
Writer: Jay Martel, Ian Roberts, Etan Cohen and Adam McKay
Stars: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Alison Brie
Release Date: 3/27/2015
Running Time: 100 minutes

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When millionaire James King is nailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, he turns to Darnell Lewis to prep him to go behind bars.


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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)*

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TITLE: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (aka. Anchorman 2: Supersized)

RELEASE DATE: 12/18/2013

RATING: PG-13 (2/28/2014 re-release rated R)

With the 70s behind him, San Diego’s top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York’s first 24-hour news channel by storm.

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