J. Edgar
The most powerful man in the world.
Overview
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
- Budget
- $35,000,000
- Revenue
- $84,606,030
- Production
- Imagine Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Wintergreen Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio
John Edgar Hoover
Armie Hammer
Clyde Tolson
Naomi Watts
Helen Gandy
Josh Lucas
Charles Lindbergh
Josh Hamilton
Robert Irwin
Judi Dench
Anna Marie Hoover
Geoff Pierson
Mitchell Palmer
Gunner Wright
Dwight Eisenhower
Dermot Mulroney
Colonel Schwarzkopf
Kaitlyn Dever
Palmer's Daughter
Adam Driver
Walter Lyle
Ed Westwick
Agent Smith
Jessica Hecht
Emma Goldman
Denis O'Hare
Albert Osborne
Lea Thompson
Lela Rogers
Damon Herriman
Bruno Hauptmann
Sadie Calvano
Edgar's Niece
Amanda Schull
Anita Colby
Roberta Bassin
Roosevelt's Secretary
Emily Alyn Lind
Shirley Temple
Crew
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Writers
- Dustin Lance Black
- Cinematography
- Tom Stern
- Composer
- Clint Eastwood
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r96sk
February 12, 2022
A bit of a bore, is <em>'J. Edgar'</em>. Leonardo DiCaprio puts in a very good performance as the titular character and his co-stars are all solid, but I just found the way that the story is told to be lacklustre. There aren't, at least for me, any memorable scenes and I wasn't invested in the plot at any point really. It's semi-watchable, but goes on for too long to be passably so. It does, as noted, have a neat cast list, with Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts and Judi Dench, among others, invol…
GenerationofSwine
January 14, 2023
My only real complaint about Leonardo DiCaprio is that he looks like, well, Leonardo DiCaprio and that is a shame given that given that he doesn't play Lenardo DiCaprio, he plays whoever the script says he is and we all think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread because of that. Except in J. Edgar where, for the first real time, DiCaprio doesn't look like DiCaprio, he looks a lot like the cross-dressing fascist he's portraying. And being Leo, he acts like him too. THANK YOU. For o…