We all deserve the truth and in Reality UK Trailer, Sydney Sweeney wants to tell the truth. Ahead of it’s cinema release Vertigo Releasing as she takes on the U.S Government in Tina Satter’s indie drama.
The film premiered recently at Berlin Film Festival and based on the true story of Reality Winner (Sweeney). Who found herself arrested in 2017 when she became a whistle-blower, leaking classified information. Winner was only 25 years old and a FBI Agent with a promising career only to find her fellow agents surrounding her Georgia home. The info all connected to the 2016 elections and the alleged Russian interference.
The film seems set in one location, using a documentary style drama approach using the real life FBI transcripts. It’s a morality tale, which some Americans saw her as a ‘type’ of hero however whatever you think she did break the law. The trailer does give us a taster of her life on the job and outside the job. She is a young woman who now is serving one of the longest jail term for this type of crime.
On a Saturday afternoon in June 2017, 25-year-old Reality Winner is confronted at her Georgia home by the FBI. A cryptic conversation begins, and Reality’s life quickly begins to unravel…
Adapted from her 2019 stage play Is This a Room, Satter creates a tense thriller using dialogue taken directly from the FBI’s transcript of the gruelling interrogation that followed. By turns nail-biting, darkly funny and surreal, the film boasts a sensational performance from Sydney Sweeney as the first whistle-blower in the Trump era.
Reality also stars Josh Hamilton and Marchánt Davis. The film will be released in UK and Irish cinemas from 2nd June. If you live in the U.S you can see the film from 29th May.
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