Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) on Netflix
PG-1320171h 43mBiographyDramaHistoryThriller
After J. Edgar Hoover dies, the FBI passes over associate director Mark Felt and names an outsider to run it. When Watergate reaches the Bureau, Felt begins leaking secrets to reporters.
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Plot summary
In April 1972, White House advisers ask Mark Felt, the FBI's associate director, how to persuade J. Edgar Hoover to step down. Hoover dies soon after, and Pat Gray, an outsider, is named acting director over Felt, whose wife Audrey shares his sense of the snub. Their daughter Joan has been out of touch for a year. That June, former CIA and FBI agents break into the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex to plant bugs. Gray's orders, which seem to come from the White House, keep the Bureau's inquiry from reaching the re-election committee of President Richard Nixon. Felt decides the Bureau needs its independence from the White House, and begins passing information on the case to reporters, first to Sandy Smith of Time, then to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
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- Much of Diane Lane's performance was cut due to running time constraints; at a press conference Peter Landesman and Liam Neeson both championed it, saying how devastated they all were, especially Lane herself, that so much of her work was not in the finished film.
- Cinematographer Adam Kimmel shot his first digital feature on this film using Arri Alexa XT cameras, and the production became the first ever to be filmed with Cooke Anamorphic/i SF lenses, a specially coated set designed to add extra flare and bokeh.
