Title: Vice
Original Title: Vice
Year: 2018
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 132 Minutes (2 hours 12 min)
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Genre: Biography Drama
- Studios: Annapurna Pictures
- Distributor: eOne Films Spain
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: January 25 2019
- United States: December 21 2018
Plot
Biopic about Dick Cheney, Vice-President of the United States during the George W. Bush's presidential term. The film explores how Dick Cheney, a bureaucratic Washington became the most powerful vice president in the history of the United States, having a major influence on George Bush's decisions. In fact, Cheney was one of the greatest promoters of the Iraq War.
Directed by Adam McKay, Academy Award Winner for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for 'The Big Short' in 2016, and with the multifaceted Christian Bale in the shoes of Dick Cheney and Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush. It also has in its cast Steve Carrell, who plays Donald Rumsfeld and Amy Adams playing Dick Cheney' s wife, Lynne Cheney.
Awards
- 2019 Academy Awards (Oscars): 8 1
- 2019 Golden Globes: 6 1
- 2019 BAFTA Awards: 6 1
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Trivia
Could be Bush
Christian Bale was offered to play George W. Bush in Oliver Stone' s 'W' (2008). Josh Brolin played Bush in that film, and Bale plays Bush's Vice President, Dick Cheney. In 'Vice' Bush is played by Sam Rockwell.
The couple
Amy Adams and Christian Bale have worked together before in the David O' Russell films 'The Fighter' (2010) and 'American Hustle' (2013).
Musical scene
A musical scene was filmed with the cast, but Adam McKay decided to cut it in order to give the movie a more serious tone.
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