Details

Release year: 2013

Storyline

An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.

Top credits

Directors

Zal Batmanglij

Writers

Cast

Brit Marling — Sarah
Alexander Skarsgård — Benji
Elliot Page — Izzy
Toby Kebbell — Doc

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Did you know

• Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who co-wrote the screenplay, based it on their experiences in the summer of 2009 practicing freeganism and joining an anarchist collective.

• Jamey Sheridan who plays Izzy's father was the original "Randall Flagg" in The Stand miniseries in 1994 where Alexander Skarsgard played "Randall Flagg" in the 2020 miniseries.

• Toby Kebbell who plays Doc, later plays the similarly named Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four (2015). Both self-proclaimed doctors commit acts of terrorism which they believe are for the greater good.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $2,301,839

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $77,031 (2013-06-02)

User reviews

⭐ 8/10

Makes you think!

👍 69 · 9/23/2013

⭐ 8/10

"The East" is simply just a solid, taut and investing thriller that values telling the story of its characters, while keeping the political stance to the side.

👍 93 · 7/26/2013

⭐ 8/10

Stunning and unpretentious

👍 100 · 6/22/2013