Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

Well-acted but rather dry film. I never really felt the true threat that McCarthy posed as he went down far too quickly and easily, from the perspective presented.

It just never really felt complete -- we were only getting one side and everyone on the side we saw was way too "cool" to be terribly panicked by the implications of what they were choosing to do. There's one guy who has a meltdown, but we're introduced to him as a man already broken by his wife's abandonment. Was he destroyed by politics or home life? It's unclear.

The best things about this movie were, in order: 1) I won a "backrub bet" on Patricia Clarkson's age. Gary said "she's a well-kept mid-'50s, but way too old for Robert Downey, Jr." 2) Alex Borstein in a serious non-comedy! Yay! 3) David Strathairn. Love that guy.

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