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Bombshell Dvd

The provocative real story of three whip-smart, ambitious, strong women who anchored one of America’s most powerful news networks — becoming headlines themselves when they risked everything to stand up to the man who made them famous.

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Bombshell is a 2019 American drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph. The film stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, and is based upon the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. Actors John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, and Allison Janney appear in supporting roles.

The project was first announced in May 2017 following Ailes’s death, with Roach confirmed as director the following year. Much of the cast joined that summer and filming began in October 2018 in Los Angeles. It entered into a limited release in the United States on December 13, 2019, before a wide release on December 20, by Lionsgate.

Bombshell’s box office results were seen as a disappointment but it received generally favorable reviews, with critics praising the performances of the cast (particularly of Theron, Robbie, & Kidman) and the makeup and hairstyling but some criticizing its screenplay and inaccuracies. At the 92nd Academy Awards, it earned three nominations: Best Actress (Theron), Best Supporting Actress (Robbie), and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, winning the latter. The film also received two nominations at the 77th Golden Globe Awards (for Theron and Robbie), four at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards (Theron, Robbie, and Kidman, as well as Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture) and three at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards (Theron, Robbie, and Best Makeup and Hair). The theme song, “One Little Soldier”, performed by Regina Spektor, won the 2020 “Best Song Written or Recorded for a Film” from the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards.

Plot

After co-moderating the 2016 Republican debate, Megyn Kelly faces numerous insults from Donald Trump, who is upset because she asked him about his offensive comments toward women. With pressure from the network, and after receiving death threats and unwanted paparazzi attention, Kelly and Trump eventually reconcile.

Meanwhile, Gretchen Carlson is removed as co-anchor of the popular Fox and Friends show, and is transferred to a less popular show. Inundated by sexist comments on and off the air, including by Roger Ailes—as well as misogynistic policies like requiring female anchors to wear short dresses—Carlson meets with lawyers, Nancy Smith and Neil Mullin, who explain that Carlson’s contract prevents her from suing the network, but she can sue Ailes personally.

On her first day on The O’Reilly Factor, Kayla Pospisil meets fellow staffer Jess Carr, and the two sleep together. The next day, Ailes begins sexually harassing Pospisil. Pospisil begins to tell Carr about what happened, but Carr interrupts, saying she cannot get involved.

Carlson is later fired, ostensibly for her on-air support of the federal assault weapons ban, and decides to sue Ailes. When the news breaks the next day, Ailes denies the allegations, and Kelly admits to her core team Ailes sexually harassed her when she started at Fox. In the following weeks, despite a number of other women voicing their public support of Ailes, Kelly conspicuously refuses to make a comment on Carlson’s accusations.

After more women accuse Ailes, Kelly starts to find other women at the network. Kelly visits Pospisil, and the two confide in each other. Kelly advises Pospisil to come forward, and after consulting with Carr, she does. Through her attorneys, Carlson later informs Ailes she has recorded conversations to support her claims. Defeated, Ailes is fired by Fox co-creator Rupert Murdoch. Ailes settles Carlson’s lawsuit for $20 million and an apology from Fox, but the agreement contains a non-disclosure agreement. Fox eventually paid the victims of sexual harassment $50 million, while paying Ailes and O’Reilly $65 million in severance.

Cast

Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly
Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson
Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil
John Lithgow as Roger Ailes
Kate McKinnon as Jess Carr
Connie Britton as Beth Ailes
Malcolm McDowell as Rupert Murdoch
Allison Janney as Susan Estrich
Rob Delaney as Gil Norman
Mark Duplass as Douglas Brunt
Liv Hewson as Lily Balin
Brigette Lundy-Paine as Julia Clarke
Katie Aselton as Alicia
Nazanin Boniadi as Rudi Bakhtiar
Andy Buckley as Gerson Zweifac
Michael Buie as Bret Baier
P. J. Byrne as Neil Cavuto
D’Arcy Carden as Rebekah
Bree Condon as Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kevin Dorff as Bill O’Reilly
Alice Eve as Ainsley Earhardt
Spencer Garrett as Sean Hannity
Ashley Greene as Abby Huntsman
Tricia Helfer as Alisyn Camerota
Marc Evan Jackson as Chris Wallace
Brian d’Arcy James as Brian Wilson
Richard Kind as Rudy Giuliani
Amy Landecker as Dianne Brandi
Ben Lawson as Lachlan Murdoch
Josh Lawson as James Murdoch
Jennifer Morrison as Juliet Huddy
Mark Moses as Bill Shine
Ahna O’Reilly as Julie Roginsky
Tony Plana as Geraldo Rivera
Lisa Canning as Harris Faulkner
Elisabeth Röhm as Martha MacCallum
Stephen Root as Neil Mullen
John Rothman as Martin Hyman
Brooke Smith as Irena Briganti
Holland Taylor as Faye
Alanna Ubach as Jeanine Pirro
Robin Weigert as Nancy Smith
Madeline Zima as Edie
Anne Ramsay as Greta Van Susteren
Lennon Parham as Beth’s Employee
Jon Gabrus as Sound Man

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