Clint Eastwood Film Festival: J. Edgar

Stop by the GARDEN for the Clint Eastwood Film Festival January 3rd – February 6th sponsored by the Greenfield Moose Lodge #997 and Liberty Tax Service.

J. Edgar (2011)

Clint Eastwood will next direct a biopic of controversial FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.Hoover was the first Director of the FBI of the United States. He was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.Late in life, and after his death, Hoover became an increasingly controversial figure. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI.

CAST: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Judi Dench, Ed Westwick, Josh Lucas, Ken Howard

DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood

RUN TIME: 137 min