Medium Cool

Medium Cool

1969 · 111 min · EN · R · 6.8 (64 votes)
Dir. Haskell Wexler · Starring Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship, Charles Geary · Music Mike Bloomfield

Beyond the age of innocence... into the age of awareness.

Drama

John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects.

VIBE

This film feels like a live wire, buzzing with the raw energy of a city on the brink. It's a frantic, immediate immersion into a turbulent era, capturing the chaos and paranoia of a nation in upheaval.

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