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Medium Cool (1969)

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Average rating: 66%
122016
3.5
from 13 members
 
Starring: Christine Bergstrom, Harold Blankenship, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz
Director: Haskell Wexler
Certificate: TBC
User collections: 1969: A very fine vintage
Genres: Drama
Released: unknown

Brief synopsis of Medium Cool

John Cassellis is the toughtest TV-news-reporter around. He becomes an expert in reporting about violence in the ghetto and racial tensions. But he discovers that his network helps the FBI by letting them look at his tapes to find suspects. When he protests he is fired and goes to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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Rating of 2 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Stimulating if overlong comment on the quality of life in the sixties, immaculately made and with a rather effective though obvious twist ending.

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