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Official Secrets
Why this pick
Like Snowden, it turns a real leak into a tightly focused moral-pressure thriller, following one insider’s escalating risk as state secrecy collides with conscience.
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MOVIE2016 2h 8m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden arranges a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong with a journalist in order to expose the illegal surveillance performed by the National Security Agency. What plays out is one of the most complicated and fraught releases of classified information in U.S. history.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Edward Snowden
Shailene Woodley
Lindsay Mills
Zachary Quinto
Glenn Greenwald
Scott Eastwood
Trevor James
Ben Schnetzer
Gabriel Sol
LaKeith Stanfield
Patrick Haynes
Rhys Ifans
Corbin O'Brian
Nicolas Cage
Hank Forrester