Director Kevin Macdonald moves from documentaries and the Idi Amin drama The Last King of Scotland to this fictional thriller that feels all too real at times. Based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, State of Play stars Russell Crowe as Cal McCaffrey, an old-school-style journalist working for the Washington Globe. He begins to investigate the death of a young woman who was the research assistant and mistress of his friend Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck), an ambitious congressman whose career is likely ruined when his affair is revealed. Joined by young political blogger Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), Cal races against time and deadlines to solve the murder, which may be only a small part of a much larger crime. State of Play is a thought-provoking thriller that manages to be both timely and timeless
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