BOMBSHELL (2019)
BOMBSHELL depicts, with equal parts bemusement and outrage, the explosion that occurred when the women of Fox News Channel dared to expose the culture of sexual harassment that had prevailed for so long at the cable television juggernaut. More than a year before allegations of abuse and harassment against Harvey Weinstein would spark the #MeToo movement and crater his career, there was Roger Ailes, the fearsome TV news titan whose personal empire came crumbling down. Director Jay Roach's (AUSTIN POWERS, TRUMBO) film follows those fraught days during the summer of 2016, when FOX & FRIENDS morning show co-host Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) files a lawsuit against the former Fox News CEO and Megyn Kelly (an Academy Award®-nominated Charlize Theron) — the network's biggest star at that point — comes forward with Ailes harassment tales of her own. BOMBSHELL may not change anyone's minds — especially not those viewers who, as the film points out, have the Fox News logo burned into the bottom corner of their TV screens. But it also doesn't try to be fair and balanced, to borrow the network’s slogan — and its incisive point of view is one of the film's many great strengths. (Note courtesy of Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com.) DIR/PROD Jay Roach; SCR/PROD Charles Randolph; PROD A. J. Dix, Aaron L. Gilbert, Robert Graf, Michelle Graham, Beth Kono, Margaret Riley, Charlize Theron. U.S., 2019, color, 109 min. RATED R
Co-presented by SAG-AFTRA Washington Mid-Atlantic Local, CLUW (Coalition of Labor Union Women) and Metro DC CLUW.
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Run Time: 109 Minutes
Opening Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Genre: Drama, biography
