J. Edgar

Titolo originale: J. Edgar
Regia: Clint Eastwood |
Anno: 2011
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Crime Storia
Tag: fbi | biography | historical figure | lgbt | gay theme |
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio | Armie Hammer | Naomi Watts | Josh Lucas | Josh Hamilton | Judi Dench | Geoff Pierson | Gunner Wright | Dermot Mulroney | Kaitlyn Dever | Adam Driver | Ed Westwick | Jessica Hecht | Denis O'Hare | Lea Thompson | Damon Herriman | Sadie Calvano | Amanda Schull | Roberta Bassin | Emily Alyn Lind | Barbara Keegan | Gerald Downey | Jeffrey Donovan | Geoff Stults | Thomas Langston | Lea Coco | Aaron Lazar | Cheryl Lawson | Brady Matthews | David A. Cooper | Kelly Lester | Jack Donner | Dylan Burns | Jack Axelrod | Michael James Faradie | Josh Stamberg | Christian Clemenson | Billy Smith | Ken Howard | Zach Grenier | Johnny Cicco | Steve Monroe | Stephen Root | Gary Werntz | David Clennon | Michael O'Neill | Eric Larkin | Eric Frentzel | Kyle Eastwood | Gregory Hoyt | Jenny Phagan | Chris Caputo | Shannon McClain Robertson | Leslie Augustine | Jennipher Foster | Belinda Gosbee | Elizabeth Karr | Martin Luther King Jr. | Lindsay Lucas-Bartlett | Pat Nixon | Richard Nixon | Jamie Noel | Miles Fisher | Robert Fleet | Emily Banks | Scot Carlisle | Ryan McPartlin | Taylor Tunes |

Nominato capo dell'FBI dal Presidente Calvin Coolidge, J. Edgar Hoover è un giovane uomo ambizioso nell'America proibizionista. Figlio di un padre debole e di una madre autoritaria, Edgar è ossessionato dalla sicurezza del Paese e dai criminali che la minacciano a suon di bombe e volantini. Avviata una lotta senza esclusione di colpi contro bolscevichi, radicali, gangster e delinquenti di ogni risma, il direttore federale attraversa la storia americana costruendosi una reputazione irreprensibile e inattaccabile. A farne le spese sono i suoi nemici, reali o supposti, tutti ugualmente ricattabili dai dossier confidenziali raccolti, archiviati e custoditi da Helen Gandy, fedele segretaria che rifiutò il suo corteggiamento e ne sposò la causa. Quarantotto anni di 'azioni' (il)legali, otto presidenti e un sentimento dissimulato dopo, quello per il collaboratore Clyde Tolson, Edgar detterà la sua biografia e le sue imprese.

Errori

Many scenes involving press photographers pre-1930 erroneously show later-production flashguns with [...] D
Hoover and Tolson are in Del Mar, and gossip about having seen Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball together [...] D
At Clyde Tolson's interview with Hoover, when Hoover says "There were several problems with your app [...] D
When Edgar's mother teaches him to dance, she has her right hand on top of his left shoulder and he [...] D
When Hoover is cracking the shell of eggs with Tolson, you can clearly see the fat pad around DiCapr [...] D
When Hoover and Tolson attend the premiere of "G-Men," it is projected in the modern "flat" ratio of [...] D
An early Tolson/Hoover scene at the tailors, is set up with an exterior shot of a well-known Washing [...] D
Hoover tells Tolson they're going to Del Mar. But the scene is set in 1934, before the Lindbergh bab [...] D
The horse racing scenes in the movie were filmed at Del Mar Racetrack supposedly in the 1930s and la [...] D
District of Columbia flags are displayed in congressional hearing rooms and in the Department of Jus [...] D
Near the end of the movie, when J. Edgar and Clyde are conversing with one another. J. Edgar is wear [...] D
During telephone conversations, the corded handsets had a modular jack. These modular jacks did not [...] D
The movie portrays the Lindbergh kidnapping as being the reason for the origin of the crime laborato [...] D
Hoover states that the Lindbergh baby's body was found in a spot that was within sight of the Lindbe [...] D
Tolson tells Hoover that firing Purvis would be "a P.R. disaster." The use of "P.R." to mean "public [...] D
As the 1933 Inauguration parade passes by Hoover's office in the background, outside his window, is [...] D
After Emma Goldman's 1919 trial, reporters start shooting photos using flash bulbs. They were not in [...] D
When young Hoover is speaking across the desk of the attorney general, the time on the desk clock ne [...] D
In one scene set in the 1930s the Federal income tax department is referred to as the IRS. The name [...] D
Emma Goldman is interrogated in a scene early in the film, set in lower Manhattan in 1919 or 1920. T [...] D
When Hoover calls RFK to tell him JFK has been shot, RFK is taking the call in his office. In realit [...] D
When the doctor gives the older Hoover his injections, you can easily see that he never actually pus [...] D
While J Edgar eats dinner at home with his mother and his niece, the niece's fork arm changes positi [...] D
Neither Hoover nor Agent Melvin Purvis killed John Dillinger. Dillinger was actually gunned down by [...] D