Thanks to Rod for pointing us to the trailer for Nothing But the Truth on Moviefone (via comingsoon.net)
Some critics who saw this in Toronto noticed the obvious parallel between the movie’s basic plot catalyst and the Valerie Plame/Judith Miller case. Some of those same early viewers got all uptight and indignant because the actual story Rod Lurie wanted to tell is nothing at all like the Plame case. Personally, I’m glad we didn’t get the movie those people were expecting because one headline reenactment packed with slimeballs per year is already one too many. Besides, Richard Dreyfuss feels enough self-loathing this season without playing Cheney and Robert Novak both.
Hard to tell from the trailer if the movie is as good as I hope, and I can’t trust some of the critics for the reasons above. There’s no doubt I’m looking forward to finding out fr myself, while a movie about Scooter Libby wouldn’t interest me at all. When the real events are so repulsive, a movie loosely “inspired by” those events is about as close as I want to get to reliving them.
15 Responses for "Nothing But the Truth"
Can Angela get something amazing already?
Angela Bassett should have been the fourth African American woman to ever win an oscar…not that over the top, overrated, and excessive Jennifer Hudson.
Bassett is amazing; it is sad that Hollywood won’t write meaty scripts for women of color. and then we have talentless blue-eyed monstrosities parading on red carpets, getting roles, recognition and fame. Life just isn’t fair.
I signed on to comment on Angela Bassett; glad to see I’m in good company. I wish someone with some imagination would cast Bassett in something great. She’s so talented and beautiful, and has such gravity, there’s got to be something being turned down by Jodie Foster or Meryl Streep that could go to Angela Bassett.
Backto1960: Lay off of Jennifer Hudson already. We get it you don’t like her. Damn. But she has nothing to do with this post. It’s really in bad taste. I’m about to alert the cops and tell them that you may have something to do with those murders and I am not joking ( I live in Chicago).
Angela is love, but I’m not interested in this film at all.
@ Dan
what a distasteful thing to say. It was uncalled for. My criticism of Hudson is based on acting and strictly within the acting realm. Have I ever said that I don’t like Hudson? how can I hate someone I haven’t even met. She seems like a fun girl with an amazing personality but my criticism has nothing to do with Hudson as a person. Everything I have ever said about her here is strictly based on acting. That is what this site is about and that’s what I’m doing.
You better watch your comments young man because the next time, I won’t be this friendly. A word to the wise is enough.
Yeah, young man! You better watch yourself or you’re in for a whoopin’ from backto1960! =O
But I do agree that Bassett is in need of some better roles! One of these years in the coming few will be her’s, I can guarantee it.
I have some love for Angela Bassett. Send more scripts her way! It’s too early to think creatively now, but I’ll be playing casting agent today.
Angela Bassett is the mother of the Notorious BIG in the new movie Notorious.
That screams Oscar!!!!!!!
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backto1960 – although said distastefully, I do have to agree with Dan and beg you to give up the Jennifer Hudson ghost. I agree with you that Angela Bassett is an amazing talent and it is pathetic that her star has faded somewhat in the last few years after her scorching portrayal of Tina Turner – but let the Jennifer Hudson criticism go.
I know you didn’t like her performance, but the gal has over 29 awards for playing Effie White – not only the Academy Award, but the SAG and the New York Film Critics….so give it up…PLEASE.
Angela Bassett unfortunately doesn’t have that much to do in the film, though of course, she’s fine in the scenes she’s in. The film is good and worth seeing, but it loses a bit of momentum the longer Kate Beckinsale’s character stays in prison.
I thought Lurie did an interesting job using the Plame case as inspiration. The movie might get more attention if it were shown on HBO. Right now it might get lost among the other profile releases coming out at the end of the year.
@ backto1960
Wow, did you really wrote “how can I hate someone I haven’t even met”? That’s really great because a week ago you wrote that “I hate Angelina” (Jolie) again and again. It was so annoying that I had to avoid this site for days.
Whatever, since that Tina Turner movie 15 years ago, Angela Bassett hadn’t appeared in o n e interesting project. Bloody agency, i think.
Too bad Angela’s scenes were cut in Mr. and Mrs. Smith…and they stuck her with ER, but hey, that might be good for her.
I know! Pair her up with Eastwood! Instant nom.
Why does everything devolve into a Jennifer Hudson discussion anymore?
lol.
Bassett is so underused in this film, it is disgusting.
The only thing good about Nothing but the Truth would be the performances of Alan Alda and Vera Farmiga. Beckinsale whines and pouts her way through the proceedings and when she gets put in jail, it becomes a terrible, cliche-filled Lifetime movie.
If you thought The Contender was good (which in that film’s defense, it did contain some good performances), you will go ape over this one.
I thought I was the only one that felt such disgust with Hollywood for under-employing one of its most talented leading ladies, Angela Bassett. She is fierce, sexy, a Queen in her craft of acting. I think we are all missing out when she doesnt get the right roles. I believe she’ll get her Oscar some time soon, talent like that cant be ignored for too long.
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