Kill the Messenger
Summary: Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contras/freedom fighters in Nicaragua.
Release Date: October 09, 2014
Director:
Michael Cuesta
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,450,846
International: $ 2,768,127
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