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Christine

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Based on true events, Christine is a drama directed by Antonio Campos that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Rebecca Hall stars as Christine Chubbuck, a reporter who committed suicide on live television. The film co-stars Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Maria Dizzia, J. Smith-Cameron, John Cullum, and Timothy Simons.
Christine, always the smartest person in the room at her local Sarasota, Florida news station, feels like she is destined for bigger things and is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position in a larger market. As an aspiring newswoman with an eye for nuance and an interest in social justice, she finds herself constantly butting heads with her boss (Letts), who pushes for juicier stories that will drive up ratings. Plagued by self-doubt and a tumultuous home life, Christine’s diminishing hope begins to rise when an on-air co-worker (Michael C. Hall) initiates a friendship which ultimately becomes yet another unrequited love. Disillusioned as her world continues to close in on her, Christine takes a dark and surprising turn.
“I read [the script] and I was shocked by how brilliantly the story was handled, how it struck me as being about so much more than her suicide,” Hall explains. “You know, there’s this woman who’s in a state of nervous breakdown and there’s also a nation in a state of nervous breakdown. And it felt to me in many ways about America in the mid-70s as much as that one woman. I also think that mental illness and suicide is something we’re all a bit frightened of talking about, even though it affects maybe all of us indirectly in some way or another.”
Christine is rated R.