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J. Edgar

Summary: J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

Release Date: November 11, 2011

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writer: Dustin Lance Black

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Imagine Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Wintergreen Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,306,030

International: $ 47,614,509

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20th century history abduction abuse of power adult child lives at home agent aging airplane alvin karpis alvin karpis character ambition american american criminal american history american politics anarchist anti communism anti communist applause archive footage argument arrest assassination attempt attorney attorney general audience audio recording automobile baby balcony bank robber bank robbery bar based on real person based on true story beating bedroom bicycle binoculars biography filmmaking blackmail blood bloody mouth bomb bombing book brushing teeth bureau bureaucracy bureaucrat business card camera candidate car card catalogue cash celebrity cemetery centralia washington cereal character name in title charles lindbergh character childhood memory closeted homosexual cohabitation communism confidentiality congress congressional hearing corn flakes corruption court courtroom coworker coworker relationship criminal crossdressing crush crying dance club dance lesson dead baby dead body death death mask death of loved one death of mother death of protagonist death of title character del mar california department of justice department store deportation destruction dictation dictator discovery doctor document dodge motor vehicle dwight d. eisenhower character effeminate male egg ego elevator emma goldman character employer employee relationship ends with biographical notes envy evidence explosion explosive extortion fame family relationships fanatic father son relationship fbi agent fbi director fbi federal bureau of investigation fbi files fbi investigation fear fight file file cabinet film projector fingerprint fingerprints fired from a job fireplace first family flash forward flashback flowers force ford ford car ford model a ford motor vehicle foreigner forename as title franklin d. roosevelt character friend friendship friendship between men gangster gay gay kiss gay relationship german american ginger rogers ginger rogers character government gravestone 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lorena hickok reference to lucille ball reference to machine gun kelly reference to martin luther king jr.reference to melvin horace purvis jr.reference to pretty boy floyd reference to rudy vallee reference to sherlock holmes reference to the john f. kennedy assassination reference to the stork club reminiscing reporter repressed homosexual repression revolutionary richard m. nixon character riding a bicycle ring riot robe robert f. kennedy character scientific investigation scrapbook scream screen secrecy secret secret file secret recording secretary sexual attraction sexual repression sexual tension shirley temple character shootout shredder shredding a document sissy skeleton smoking lounge sniper spectator stadium state employee statue of liberty new york city store strike stroke stroke victim stutterer subject name in title suit surveillance tailor shop tape recorder terrorist testimony thompson sub machine gun thousand dollar bill throwing a drink glass time timeframe 1940s 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