
James Vanderbilt, who wrote “Zodiac”, made his directing debut with Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford in a real American scandal. Just before an election, CBS aired the president’s military records and the whole country started talking, yet the network later refused this film advertising time.
In autumn 2004, a few weeks before the US presidential election, CBS news producer Mary Mapes has her hands on documents suggesting George W. Bush never completed his military service. Together with Dan Rather she puts the story on air, but within days the focus has moved off the president and onto the typeface of the memos. Meanwhile, the man who handed them over starts changing his story.
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