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'Patriots Day': How the Film's Team Re-Created the Watertown Shootout
In separate interviews, director Peter Berg and director of photography Tobias Schliessler explain their approach to one of the film's pivotal scenes
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In Theaters This Weekend: Martin Scorsese's Passion Project and an Account of the Boston Marathon Bombing
Martin Scorsese has wanted to make this movie for a very long time, and it seems his efforts and patience have paid off. Silence, a film about two priests (Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield) who travel to Japan to find their mentor (Liam Neeson), is getting critical praise, with high marks on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Victims Praise Heroism in Emotional 'Patriots Day' Trailer
Hollywood drama meets its real-life inspiration in the new trailer for Patriots Day, Peter Berg’s cinematic retelling of the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. In the clip – the second full-length trailer released for the film – Mark Wahlberg, who plays a Boston police officer who joins the FBI in the hunt for the terror suspects, discusses the heroism that inspired the film’s plot. Patriots Day weaves together the interconnected stories of Special Agent Richard Deslauriers
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'Patriots Day' Review: A Solemn Salute to Boston's Heroes
A fitting big screen tribute to the resilient Americans who acted nobly in the face of terror at the 2013 Boston Marathon
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'Patriots Day' Trailer: Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Bacon Are on the Hunt for the Boston Marathon Bombers
The first Patriots Day teaser ended — ominously — just as the explosions went off in the docudrama’s depiction of the real-life events surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. On Monday morning, we got a full trailer that gives some hints about the desperate aftermath, including the manhunt for the two brothers who set that catastrophe in motion. In his second movie for director Peter Berg this year (after Deepwater Horizon), Mark Wahlberg plays a Boston police officer who’s patrolling t
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'Patriots Day' Featurette: Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, and More on 'Getting It Right' in Boston Marathon Bombing Drama
Deepwater Horizon from director Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg is still playing in theaters, but their next collaboration isn’t far behind. Patriots Day, a dramatic re-telling of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, is a ripped-from-the-recent-headlines story that remains fresh in many people’s minds. As a new featurette debuting exclusively at Yahoo Movies (watch it above) makes clear, the filmmakers are doing everything they can to remain as faithful as possible to the facts of the event.
