Kill the Messenger (2014)

Directors

Michael Cuesta

Cast

Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo, Hajji Golightly, Ted Huckabee, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lucas Hedges, Rosemarie DeWitt, Matthew Lintz, Joshua Close, Paz Vega, Aaron Farb, Barry Pepper, Clay Edmund Kraski, Yul Vazquez, Tim Blake Nelson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jen Harper, Oliver Platt, Andy Garcia, Brett Rice, Michael Sheen, Gil Bellows, Steve Coulter, Kenny Alfonso, Dan Futterman, Susan Walters, Richard Schiff, David De Vries, Rhoda Griffis, Andrew Masset, E. Roger Mitchell, Ray Liotta, Michael H. Cole

The story

In 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb interviews drug dealer Ronny Quail, who is outraged that the government used civil asset forfeiture to keep his house even after he was acquitted. Webb's ensuing article about the abuses of forfeiture garners repeated phone calls from a woman named Coral, whom he agrees to meet when she says she has documents that prove the government sponsored cocaine sales in the U.S. Coral gives Webb a transcript of grand jury testimony (normally kept secret) which was accidentally released to her boyfriend, an accused drug dealer, during discovery.

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