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08/05/2011
Clint Eastwood’s ode to F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover will be cut and pieced together just in time for this upcoming award season.
The film set to be released under Warner Brothers on November 9th will hopefully insight move goers and Academy members enough to finally warrant Leonardo DiCaprio to be awarded his overdue Oscar.
Excerpt from Indiewire:
Aside from DiCaprio, the drama has a stellar cast including “The Social Network” breakout star Armie Hammer as Hoover’s assistant/closeted lover Clyde Tolson; Josh Lucas as famed aviator Charles Lindbergh; Ed Westwick as Agent Smith, an operative gifted with writing skills; Damon Herriman as Bruno Hauptmann, the man convicted of kidnapping and killing the Lindbergh baby; Judi Dench as Hoover’s mother; Naomi Watts as Helen Gandy, a Justice Department file clerk who ended up being Hoover’s personal secretary; Ken Howard as lawyer and jurist Harlan F. Stone; Jeffrey Donovan as Robert F. Kennedy; and Stephen Root as Arthur Koehler, a wood specialist at Forest Product Laboratories who uses his expertise to help Hoover investigate the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby by tracing the origins of the ladder used by the perpetrator.
Eastwood’s film has created Oscar buzz since its inception and with the film wrapping in February – it is obvious that everyone has their eyes on that golden statuette.
Although, Hoover wasn’t a fan of anything outside of the “good ol’ boys” club, his life provides interesting albeit sad commentary.