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Release Date: 2011

Cast: David A. Cooper, Naomi Watts, Cheryl Lawson, Judi Dench, Josh Hamilton, Damon Herriman, Dylan Burns, Stephen Root, Lea Thompson, Ed Westwick, Jack Donner, Kaitlyn Dever ...MORE

Cast: David A. Cooper, Naomi Watts, Cheryl Lawson, Judi Dench, Josh Hamilton, Damon Herriman, Dylan Burns, Stephen Root, Lea Thompson, Ed Westwick, Jack Donner, Kaitlyn Dever, Gunner Wright, Jordan Bridges, Brady Matthews, Geoff Pierson, Miles Fisher, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dermot Mulroney, Armie Hammer, Kelly Lester, Josh Lucas, Jeffrey Donovan ...LESS

Categories: Movies, LGBT, Biographical film, Political drama

J. Edgar is a 2011 American biographical drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Dustin Lance Black. The film focuses on the career of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover from the Palmer Raids onwards, including an examination of his private life as an alleged closeted (and chaste) homosexual. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the title character, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Damon Herriman, Ed Westwick, and Jeffrey Donovan. J. Edgar opened the AFI Fest 2011 in Los Angeles on November 3, 2011, and had its limited release on November 9, followed by wide release on November 11. The film... MORE

J. Edgar is a 2011 American biographical drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Dustin Lance Black. The film focuses on the career of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover from the Palmer Raids onwards, including an examination of his private life as an alleged closeted (and chaste) homosexual. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the title character, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Damon Herriman, Ed Westwick, and Jeffrey Donovan. J. Edgar opened the AFI Fest 2011 in Los Angeles on November 3, 2011, and had its limited release on November 9, followed by wide release on November 11. The film opens with J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) in his office during his later years. He asks that a writer (Ed Westwick) be let in, so that he may tell the story of the origin of the FBI for the sake of the public. Hoover explains that the story begins in 1919, when A. Mitchell Palmer was Attorney General and Hoover's boss at the Justice Department. Palmer suffers an assassination attempt, but is unharmed when the bomb explodes earlier than intended. Hoover recalls that the police handling of the crime scene was primitive, and that it was that night that he recognized the importance of criminal LESS