Mr. Crowe captures the description flawlessly. Mr. Plummer affectionately plays every nuance of a high profile newsman at the pinnacle of his career, looking forward to the legacy which he will leave. It is a fully professional treatment and one with which Mr. Wallace should be well pleased. The characters are seen, warts and all. The movie could have benefited from a trim here or tightening there, but that is a small criticism of a work of such uniform honesty.
Truth is a funny animal.
As a constant, it stands inviolate. Truth can be suppressed and truth can be ignored. But truth is truth eternally. In the movie, the legal department of CBS, using the highest degree of convoluted logic, tried to explain that the reason they had to pull the interview off the air was that it contained too much truth. The greater the truth, the greater the damage.