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Special Bulletin
Why this pick
This real-time television-news simulation builds tension through escalating live coverage, conflicting authorities and public uncertainty rather than conventional thriller mechanics.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2006 1h 37m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Death of a President
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Broadcast in the year 2008, the film is presented in a TV documentary style format, combining pundit (expert) interviews, news coverage clips and video surveillance footage surrounding the assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush in Chicago around a year earlier on 19 October 2007. The president is fatally shot by a sniper after he addresses an Economics forum at the Chicago Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, before which an anti-war rally had taken place. News outlets immediately begin reporting on the incident along with its political ramifications. After authorities earlier arrest and interrogate war-protesting detainees, Jamal Abu Zikri (Malik Bader), an Information technology professional of Syrian people origin, becomes the prime suspect.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Brian Boland
Larry Stafford
Michael Reilly Burke
Robert H. Maguire
Robert Mangiardi
Greg Turner
Neko Parham
Casey Claybon
Christian Stolte
John Rucinski
James Urbaniak
Dr. James Pearn
Patrick Clear
Adam Brock
Becky Ann Baker
Eleanor Drake