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Snowden
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Snowden is a 2016 biographical drama and thriller film directed and written by Oliver Stone. The cast includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Melissa Leo, Shailene Woodley, and Zachary Quinto. Craig Armstrong composed the score, while Anthony Dod Mantle served as director of photography. The film was produced in the United States, Germany, and France, with filming taking place in Germany, Hong Kong, Munich, and Bavaria.
The narrative follows CIA employee Edward Snowden, who leaks thousands of classified documents to the press. The story is set in Maryland and focuses on the global surveillance disclosures involving the National Security Agency. The film has a runtime of 134 minutes and was distributed by Open Road Flims and Netflix.
Snowden was released on September 15, 2016, with additional publication dates listed for September 9 and 22 of that year. It had a production budget of 40,000,000 and earned 34,308,695 at the box office. The film received a rating of 7.3 on IMDb based on 173,004 votes, and a vote average of 7.111 from 4,651 users on TMDb.
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7.1CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Cast
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden
- Shailene Woodley as Lindsay Mills
- Melissa Leo as Laura Poitras
- Zachary Quinto as Glenn Greenwald
- Tom Wilkinson as Ewen MacAskill
- Scott Eastwood as Trevor James
Themes
- biography
- idealism
- idealist
- national security agency (nsa)
- investigative journalism
- whistleblower
- political thriller
- surveillance state
- fighting the system
- mass surveillance
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Oliver Stone
- Screenplay by
- Kieran Fitzgerald Oliver Stone
- Based on
- The Snowden Files , by Luke Harding Time of the Octopus , by Anatoly Kucherena
- Produced by
- Moritz Borman Eric Kopeloff Philip Schulz-Deyle Fernando Sulichin
- Starring
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt Shailene Woodley Melissa Leo Zachary Quinto Tom Wilkinson Scott Eastwood Logan Marshall-Green Timothy Olyphant Ben Schnetzer LaKeith Lee Stanfield Rhys Ifans Nicolas Cage
- Cinematography
- Anthony Dod Mantle
- Edited by
- Alex Marquez Lee Percy
- Music by
- Craig Armstrong
- Production companies
- Endgame Entertainment Vendian Entertainment KrautPack Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Open Road Films (United States), Universum Film / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany (Germany) , Pathé Distribution (France)
- Release dates
- July 21, 2016 ( 2016-07-21 ) (San Diego Comic-Con) September 16, 2016 ( 2016-09-16 ) (United States) September 22, 2016 ( 2016-09-22 ) (Germany)
- Running time
- 134 minutes
- Countries
- France Germany United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $40 million
- Box office
- $37.3 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Snowden is a 2016 biographical thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald. Based on the books The Snowden Files (2014) by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus (2015) by Anatoly Kucherena, the film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subcontractor and whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) beginning in 2013. In addition to Gordon-Levitt, the film features an ensemble cast including Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage. An international co-production of Germany, France, and the United States, principal photography began on February 16, 2015, in Munich.
Snowden screened at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2016, before premiering at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2016. The film was theatrically released in the United States on September 16, 2016, by Open Road Films and on September 22 in Germany. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Gordon-Levitt's performance but criticized Stone's direction. It grossed $37.3 million worldwide against its $40 million budget.
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