Title: Reality
Original Title: Reality
Year: 2023
Info
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Length: 83 Minutes (1 hour 23 min)
- Genre: Drama
- Studios: Seaview Productions
- Distributor: Filmin
Release Dates
- UK: June 02 2023
- United States: May 29 2023
Plot
'Reality' is an American criminal drama directed by Tina Satter, which is also her directorial debut. The script is written by Satter herself with James Paul Dallas. The film stars Sydney Sweeney and is based on real events, which were also adapted beforehand in her theater play "Is This a Room".
The action is set on June the 3rd, 2017, when two FBI Agents, Taylor and Garrick, confront Reality Winner at her house with a court search order. While the two agents start registering Winner's apartment, she starts talking casually with them, with all the conversation being recorded and used in the dialogs of the film.
Winner is first asked about her job, and she answers she is a yoga and CrossFit instructor, as well as a farsi translator for a government contractor company, and she hopes to be sent to Afghanistan to help in the country.
Bit by bit, the agents start to unveil the real reason of their interest for Winner: they suspect she has leaked classified documents to the media. Although she denies it at first, she finally confesses being the responsible of the leak. The documents they are referring to contain information about the Russian interference in the 2016 US Election, won by Donald Trump. She is sentenced to four years in prison, even if her documents end up being used in the Senate to prove Russian actions.
'Reality' premiered in the Berlin International Film Festival in 2023 as a critical success and praises to Sweeney's work. HBO bought the rights for the US, meanwhile several other companies did it for the rest of the world.
Cast
Director:
Reality Winner
Agent Garrick
Agent Taylor
FBI Agent
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Trivia
Sydney Sweeney's preparation
To portray Reality Winner, Sydney Sweeney conducted several interviews with Winner herself via zoom, to try lo understand the character and imitate her speaking. She also made the workouts Winner posted on Instagram to try to gain muscular mass.
Shot in chronological order
Meanwhile most of films are shot without an order to ease production, 'Reality' was shot over 16 days in the same order we can see onscreen.
Reality Winter will never see the film
Although she assessed and validated the movie, Reality Winter has declared that she will never be able to see the filme because reviving the day of her arrest will be too traumatic.
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2014
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2016 - Act
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2016
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2013
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2013
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