J Edgar (2011)

Editor's Note Acclaimed actor Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood's richly detailed biopic exploring the life and career of controversial FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. For nearly 50 years, Hoover (DiCaprio) fought crime as one of the most powerful law enforcers in America. During Hoover's extended stint as Director of the FBI, however, his penchant for bending the law in the name of seeking justice and using the secrets of high profile leaders to gain personal leverage won him just as many supporters as detractors. Little did many other than his loyal colleague Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer) and faithful secretary Helen Gandy (Naomi Watts) know, however, that Hoover himself was a man with many secrets to hide. Josh Lucas, Judi Dench, and Stephen Root co-star in film written by Oscar-winning MILK scribe Dustin Lance Black.

	Judi Dench
	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Naomi Watts
	Joshua Lucas
	Armie Hammer
	Tommy Christensen - Co-Star
	Aaron Lazar - Co-Star
	Ed Westwick - Co-Star
	Austin Basis - Co-Star
	Shannon McClain - Co-Star
	Michael Gladis - Co-Star
	Gerald Downey - Co-Star
	Michael James Faradie - Co-Star
	Denis O'Hare - Co-Star
	David Cooper - Co-Star
	Brady Matthews - Co-Star
	Ryan McPartlin - Co-Star
	Emily Alyn Lind - Co-Star
	Gunner Wright - Co-Star
	Christopher Lee Philips - Co-Star
	Michael Klinger - Co-Star
	Jeff Cockey - Co-Star
	Kaitlyn Dever - Co-Star
	Scott C. Roe - Co-Star
	Kelly Lester - Co-Star
	Dylan Burns - Co-Star
	Scot Carlisle - Co-Star
	Sadie Calvano - Co-Star
	William Bebow - Co-Star
	Tom Archdeacon - Co-Star
	Kahil Dotay - Co-Star
	Eric Larkin - Co-Star
	Eric Frentzel - Co-Star
	Evan Charest - Co-Star
	Joe Bagg - Co-Star
	Kye Palmer - Co-Star
	Jason Harnell - Co-Star
	Jamie Labarber - Co-Star
	Craig Zucchero - Co-Star
	Brennan Coulter - Co-Star
	Jenny Phagan - Co-Star
	Adam Driver - Co-Star
	Justin Alston - Co-Star
	Ary Katz - Co-Star
	Duncan Hood - Co-Star
	Ernest Heinz - Co-Star
	Teresa Hegji - Co-Star
	Thomas Langston - Co-Star
	Larkin Campbell - Co-Star
	Jeffrey Donovan - Co-Star
	Joe Keyes - Co-Star
	Jessica Hecht - Co-Star
	Joseph Culliton - Co-Star
	Christopher Shyer - Co-Star
	Manu Intiraymi - Co-Star
	Amanda Schull - Co-Star
	Mark Thomason - Co-Star
	Mike Vaughn - Co-Star
	Josh Stamberg - Co-Star
	Damon Herriman - Co-Star
	Eric Matheny - Co-Star
	Miles Fisher - Co-Star
	Geoff Stults - Co-Star
	Lea Coco - Co-Star
	Billy Smith - Co-Star
	Allen Nabors - Co-Star
	Johnny Cicco - Co-Star
	Michael Rady - Co-Star
	Greg Hoyt - Co-Star
	Maxine Weldon - Co-Star
	Gary Werntz - Co-Star
	Robert C. Fleet - Co-Star
	Ken Howard - Co-Star
	Jack Donner - Co-Star
	Jordan Bridges - Co-Star
	Chris Caputo - Co-Star
	F. Stephen Schmidt - Co-Star
	Kyle Eastwood - Co-Star
	Zach Grenier - Co-Star
	Josh Hamilton - Co-Star
	Ernest Harden Jr. - Co-Star
	Scott Johnston - Co-Star
	Cheryl Lawson - Co-Star
	Steve Monroe - Co-Star
	Dermot Mulroney - Co-Star
	Sean Murphy - Co-Star
	Michael O'Neill - Co-Star
	Geoffrey Pierson - Co-Star
	Stephen Root - Co-Star
	Lea Thompson - Co-Star
	Clint Eastwood - Composer
	Gary Fettis - Set Decorator
	Ashley Irwin - Music Director
	Roger Lifsey - Special Effects
	Buddy Van Horn - Stunt Coordinator
	Steve Riley - Special Effects Supervisor
	Gregg Rudloff - Sound Re-Recording
	John Reitz - Sound Re-Recording
	Kathryn Blondell - Hairstylist
	Patrick M. Sullivan Jr. - Supervising Art Director
	Dustin Lance Black - Screenwriter
	Tom Stern - Director of Photography
	Terry Baliel - Hairstylist
	Method Studios - Visual Effects Designer
	Tim Moore - Production Manager/UPM
	Chris McGeary - Music Editor
	Duncan Jarman - Makeup
	Duncan Jarman - Special Makeup Effects
	David Bernstein - Assistant Director
	Ante Dugandzic - Special Effects
	Jay Wejebe - Makeup
	Lola Visual Effects - Visual Effects Designer
	Zoe Hay - Makeup
	Stephanie Fowler - Makeup
	Patricia Dehaney - Hairstylist
	Sian Grigg - Makeup
	Sian Grigg - Special Makeup Effects
	Alessandro Bertolazzi - Makeup
	Gennady Loktionov - Music Arranger
	Ryan Riley - Special Effects
	Ryan D. Compton - Special Effects
	Jack Axelrod - Co-Star
	Roberta Bassin - Co-Star
	Christian Clemenson - Co-Star
	David Clennon - Co-Star
	Clint Eastwood - Director

USA Today
"Black, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for MILK, has crafted a complex portrayal of HOOVER..." 11/11/2011

Los Angeles Times
"[A] somber, enigmatic, darkly fascinating tale....J. EDGAR benefits from the convincing acting of key cast members..." 11/09/2011

New York Times
"Anchored by a forceful, vulnerable Leonardo DiCaprio....It portrays a 20th-century titan who, with secrets and bullets, a will to power and the self-promotional skills of a true star, built a citadel of information in which he burrowed deep." 11/11/2011

Hollywood Reporter
"[The film] tackles its trickiest challenges with plausibility and good sense, while serving up a simmeringly caustic view of its controversial subject's behavior, public and private." 11/03/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"DiCaprio does more than disappear behind steely glasses and prosthetic old-age makeup. He transforms himself in a feat of acting, from the inside out." -- Grade: B 11/18/2011

Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "J. EDGAR is a classically made biopic graced with potent performances..." 02/01/2012

Film Comment
"Clint Eastwood's Hoover biopic cuts elliptically back and forth through a 50-year career of crime-busting and witch-hunting, while including some big-scene digital recreations....Solidly structured, emotionally and physically..." 05/01/2012