Expendable (2012)
The Political Sacrifice Of Shapelle Corby
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Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 44M
Director : Kathy Manning
Sinopsis
How a government wilfully withheld vital evidence from a court of law, deceived its public, orchestrated an unprecedented media campaign, and ruthlessly deployed its organs of state against one of its own citizens. Expendable presents, and demonstrates, the crushing, pre-meditated, and often brutal acts which a western government is prepared to inflict upon a helpless woman, Schapelle Corby, in pursuit of political expediency.
Continuación de la saga de los Corleone con dos historias paralelas: la elección de Michael Corleone como jefe de los negocios familiares y los orígenes del patriarca, el ya fallecido Don Vito, primero en Sicilia y luego en Estados Unidos, donde, empezando desde abajo, llegó a ser un poderosísimo jefe de la mafia de Nueva York.
Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) es un estudiante de la Universidad de Princeton que pierde el dinero que necesitaba para su matrícula al apostarlo en un juego de póker online. Cuando descubre que el sitio web está alojado en una isla remota, va a enfrentar a su dueño, el millonario Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), pero termina convirtiéndose en su discípulo y mano derecha. La relación entre ambos alcanza el punto de ebullición mientras un agente del FBI (Anthony Mackie) intenta utilizar a Furst para detener a Block.
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