The Post

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

One of the best movies I have seen, for awhile. I watched it 2 nights in a row, and enjoyed as much the 2nd watch.
I must say, I am 66 years old, and remember the “Pentagon Papers” release, when it happened; this movie filled in
many details that I did not catch on the 1st run. This movie goes down with “All the Presidents Men” as one of the best.
And at the very end of this movie there is about a 30 second reference to the Watergate brake in; that brought Nixon down.-Jeff Mills

Simply great score that added to the suspense in a profound way. Having lived through the actual events, I thought that the path to the crescendo was superbly presented, with all of the compelling twists and turns along the way often leaving me breathless. There’s no denying that the relevancy to today’s times makes the film especially important. It is the dedicated and focused reporters and journalists who are going to get us our country back…and their courage and quest for the truth…even in the face of powerful forces trying to stop them…is really all we have standing between us and fascism.-artgirl

Well it’s Stars my favorite actors but more than that being of a certain age I definitely remember the Watergate Scandal and reading afterward what courage it had taken for Katherine Graham to assume her position as the owner of the Washinton Post after her husband’s suicide even though her father had originally owned the Post and she had every right. 1971 was a time when the glass ceiling was about ankle high and the thought of women even having credit in their name was fraught. I remember going into a bank to deliver the loan paperwork on the house my husband and I were buying. I went in with two young children, signed loan documents that we more than qualified for I thought I was just running one more errand that day when the Bank Manager he would not take them without my husband being there. Why? Because I was a woman and my husband might not know what I was doing, it was an expensive house! I explained my husband was at work (he was working @ 120hrs a week when he first opened his practice)
So the bank manager said, “What would happen if I called Your Husband?” He’d tell you to take the papers! So I called his office, asked to speak to him and when he came to the phone I explained that I was at the bank and the manager wouldn’t take the loan docs from me! God Bless my husband, he couldn’t believe it! So when the manager got on the line he told him to take the damn paperwork that I handled all our finances and to do anything else I ever asked him to do regarding our finances or he’d pull every account we had and the hospitals and medical center and do his best to make sure he either got over his chauvinist attitude or be fired! Can only imagine the opposition Katherine Graham faced, the risk financially, socially and possibly legally if they got it wrong! So not without trepidation but with great patriotism she took it! She was my hero I’ve been a fan of the Washington Post ever since!
She was trying to do this after suffering through the emotional stress of her husband who suffered from bi-polar disorder has committed suicide so it was a story for women’s liberation too.
Read more- S. Hamilton

Having just watched this docu-drama and taking notes, I was amazed at how history and it’s ‘circle’ just keeps going around and around. We’re supposed to learn from our mistakes through history as should the politicos, White House and media. Some say this was ‘boring’ but if you lived through those times it was just the beginning of a much larger and more dangerous picture. Just look at us now and the media and what it can and has done to divide our country via the politicians who have/had someone in their back pockets to make things happen. The print is a mighty sword and can be constructive as well as destructive. Watch the Speilberg version of the Post and the NY Times and draw your own conclusions. SO much more that I wish they had at least hinted at but the last short quote in the movie might get you to your history books and google searches. See where we’re heading and what’s already happened. Again. Good work to all of those who participated in this. NOT boring at all-kb

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Subtitles: Spanish, English, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: April 17, 2018
Run Time: 116 minutes
ASIN: B078952HWQ