State of Play is a 2009 political thriller film. It is an adaptation of the six-part British television serial of the same name which first aired on BBC One in 2003. The plot of the six-hour serial was condensed to fit a two-hour movie format, with the location changed to Washington, D.C. The film was directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Peter Morgan, and Billy Ray. The film tells of a journalist's probe into the suspicious death of a Congressman's mistress. The supporting cast includes Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman,... Robin Wright Penn, and Jeff Daniels. Macdonald said that State of Play is influenced by the films of the 1970s and explores the topical subject of privatization of American Homeland Security and to a minor extent journalistic independence, along with the relationship between politicians and the press. It was released in North America on April 17, 2009. The 2011 Indian Tamil film Ko has its main plot heavily inspired from this film.. One night, a thief fleeing through Georgetown in Washington, D.C. is shot by a man carrying a briefcase.
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| Release date: | April 17, 2009 |
| Directed by: | Kevin MacDonald |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 127 Minutes |
| Producer: | Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan, Andrew Hauptman |
| Editor: | Justine Wright |
| Music by: | Alex Heffes |
| Cinematography: | Rodrigo Prieto |
| Screenplay by: | Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Billy Ray, Paul Abbott |
| Estimated budget: | $60,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | State of Play |
| Genre: | Thriller |