When she detects a pattern connecting a couple of recent murders, grizzled editor Jack (Chris Cooper), in an age-old tradition of condescension and obstruction, won’t give her a shot with the big boys. Clipping crime reports from the city’s other papers, she’s keeping track of how her tabloid keeps being scooped by its competitors.
At the Record American in 1962, Loretta is a frustrated lifestyle reporter, her latest assignment a product review of the new Sunbeam toaster. The story belongs to Loretta McLaughlin (Knightley) and Jean Cole (Coon). Henson and Leslie Mann Among Front Row Stars at Chanel Show Paris Fashion Week: Sigourney Weaver, Taraji P. Within the gray streets and the drab, smoky newsroom, this is a story of life against death, fueled by the rage and wisdom of tough dames seeking answers in a man’s world, entering places where women aren’t invited: the paper’s crime desk, the police precinct, the local watering hole.Īlessandro Nivola Talks 'Kraven the Hunter' Villain and "Exhilarating" Process Behind 'Amsterdam' Shot in and around Boston, the Hulu film is subdued and gripping, its intensely desaturated palette and Paul Leonard-Morgan’s dread-drenched score conveying the panic and gloom that held a city in a cursed spell for a year and half. “Inspired by a true story,” Boston Strangler melds crime thriller and journalism drama, illuminating with a noirish spark the midcentury sexual politics that any American woman (or girl) faced. Those heroic newshounds are played with exquisite workaday grit by Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon. This time around, the investigator played by Fonda has just one scene and a couple of lines the center instead belongs to the two female reporters who broke the story and, in the process, put the Boston PD on notice. Then came the straight-to-video thrillers about Albert DeSalvo, the confessed but not quite proven killer, and the countless episodes of true-crime series. A select group of upstanding male detectives puzzle over the lurid details of the crimes and wax psychological about the perp.
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In that movie, released only a few years after a series of murders targeted single women in their Boston-area apartments, the only female characters of note are victims. The story has been told onscreen many times, first and most famously in a 1968 feature starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda. In the revelatory Boston Strangler, Matt Ruskin ( Crown Heights) flips a well-known saga on its head.
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