Sentences with phrase «historical docudrama»

Chappaquiddick (PG - 13 for smoking, profanity, mature themes and disturbing images) Historical docudrama recounting Ted Kennedy's (Jason Clarke) summer of ’69 car accident that claimed the life of 28 year - old, campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).

7 Days in Entebbe (PG - 13 for violence, smoking, drug use, mature themes and brief profanity) Historical docudrama, set in Uganda in 1976, recounting an Israeli commando unit's daring rescue of a hijacked, Air France jetliner's passengers and crew.

Not exact matches

The movie's tonal gear - shifts from docudrama to comic drama and back again are elegant, but it's a bit of a cold shower to go from the effervescence of Goodman and Arkin's Mutt and Jeff act to scenes dominated by the Embassy Six, who are by historical definition pretty drippy company.

This historical hostage docudrama aspires to rigorous objectivity but ultimately tips its hand as an endorsement of hardline conservatism.

It complicates the film's relation to history, so thinly veiled at times (Thornton's James Carville, Emma Thompson's Hillary Clinton stand out in particular, but also Kathy Bates's conflation of Betsey Wright and Vincent Foster), but ultimately this is not a docudrama of historical recreation (like Oliver Stone's W. or the Jay Roach / Danny Strong HBO movies Recount and Game Change, let alone a fantasy of a Hawksian White House as in its most direct descendant, Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing).

Bigelow and Boal have even handily bested that fine previous effort with a masterful bit of docudrama worthy of the historical significance it will forever hold.