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“The way they lied… those days have to be over.”

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers - and their very freedom - to help bring long-buried truths to light.

Release Date: December 22, 2017

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Liz Hannah, Josh Singer

Cast: Alison Brie, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep


The Post - Movie Trailer

Next up for Spielberg is The Post, a film that couldn’t be any more timely as it takes on the current hot button topic of the precarious relationship between the government and a free press.

Only, the film is set in 1971 when, following the New York Times release of the leaked Pentagon Papers, the Nixon White House secured a court order that barred the newspaper from publishing the papers which documented the United States’ involvement in Vietnam.

Spielberg’s film picks up after the sequestration of The Times, when The Washington Post came to the aid of a fellow publication and grappled with whether to run the papers itself. The Washington Post, at the time, was headed by Katherine Graham (Meryl Strep), who along with editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) were faced with a make or break decision that had the potential to rattle the entire world.

Here's a look at the dramatic first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Post:

 

The Post - Movie Trailer

And here's the one-sheet poster for The Post:

The Post - Movie Trailer

The Post has not yet been rated by the MPAA but will release to theaters this holiday season on December 22, 2017.