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Acclaimed actor Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood's richly detailed biopic exploring the life and career of controversial FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Josh Lucas, Judi Dench, and Stephen Root co-star in film written by Oscar-winning MILK scribe Dustin Lance Black.

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ProducerRon Howard, Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer

EAN5051892074582

eBay Product ID (ePID)110967663

Product Key Features

ActorJosh Lucas, Armie Hammer, Ken Howard, Leonardo DiCaprio, Judi Dench, Damon Herriman, Ed Westwick, Naomi Watts, Jeffrey Donovan, Stephen Root

Film/TV TitleJ. Edgar

DirectorClint Eastwood

LanguageEnglish

Run Time137 Mins

Release Year2012

FormatBluraydvd

FeaturesUltraviolet Digital Copy\The Most Powerful Man in the World-Making of (Featurette)

GenreDrama, Historical

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Additional InformationAcclaimed actor Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood's richly detailed biopic exploring the life and career of controversial FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. For nearly 50 years, Hoover (DiCaprio) fought crime as one of the most powerful law enforcers in America. During Hoover's extended stint as Director of the FBI, however, his penchant for bending the law in the name of seeking justice and using the secrets of high profile leaders to gain personal leverage won him just as many supporters as detractors. Little did many other than his loyal colleague Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer) and faithful secretary Helen Gandy (Naomi Watts) know, however, that Hoover himself was a man with many secrets to hide. Josh Lucas, Judi Dench, and Stephen Root co-star in film written by Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black.

ReviewsNew York Post - DiCaprio may well receive a Best Actor Oscar for his tour de force as the conflicted FBI director -- greatly abetted by Hammer (who played the Winklevoss twins in "THE SOCIAL NETWORKö) in his first major role as the flamboyant but frustrated Tolson., Los Angeles Times - J. EDGAR is a somber, enigmatic, darkly fascinating tale, and how could it be otherwise?, Chicago Sun-Times - As a period biopic, J. EDGAR is masterful. Few films span seven decades this comfortably., The New York Times - Mr. Eastwood doesn't just shift between Hoover's past and present, his intimate life and popular persona, he also puts them into dialectic play, showing repeatedly how each informed the other.

ScreenwriterDustin Black

CinematographerTom Stern

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorGary D. Roach, Joel Cox

Movie/TV TitleJ. Edgar

Consumer AdviceContains infrequent strong language