Details

Release year: 2011

Storyline

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

Top credits

Directors

Clint Eastwood

Writers

Dustin Lance Black

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio — J. Edgar Hoover
Armie Hammer — Clyde Tolson
Naomi Watts — Helen Gandy
Josh Hamilton — Robert Irwin

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Did you know

• According to Armie Hammer, he and Leonardo DiCaprio proposed to Clint Eastwood to depict the sexual relationship between the characters as graphic, but he refused, arguing the screenplay didn't call for it.

• There was actually a huge fight between J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson in a hotel during one of their trips. According to producer and director Clint Eastwood, there are several testimonies of maids that talked about the room being destroyed after the discussion. However, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black dramatized the content of the argument.

• The closing lines of this movie, "Most clearly I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips..." is a quote from a letter from Lorena Hickok to Eleanor Roosevelt.