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Release year: 2016

Storyline

The story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.

Top credits

Directors

Antonio Campos

Writers

Craig Shilowich

Cast

Rebecca Hall — Christine
Michael C. Hall — George
Tracy Letts — Michael
Maria Dizzia — Jean

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Did you know

• The owner of the company that cut the film's trailer, Robert "Smitty" Smith at In Sync Advertising, was an actual intern at WXLT-TV who knew and was friends with Christine Chubbuck. He sought out the job when he found out about the film and saw it at Sundance; incidentally, the creators had tried to seek him out for interviews during the research phases, but were unable to locate him due to the ubiquity of his name.

• Christine Chubbuck's brother during interviews has stated that the videotape of his sister's "final on-air moment" will never been seen by anyone again as long as he can prevent it, displaying disgust for the way that the media seemed to want to get their hands on it and turn it into entertainment. Furthermore, it has been said by critics of the high demand of the tape that it is appalling the amount of conspiracy theorists and snuff film fans who want to exploit a horrible tragedy. The station manager's wife who, beside the family, had the only copy of the tape still in existence, handed it over to "a very large law firm for safe-keeping".

• Christine often spent her childhood vacations at a family cottage in Siesta Key, Florida, which she later moved into a few years before her death. According to the Washington Post, she had purposely designed her bedroom to look like that of a young teenager, and indeed, it was heavily decorated in what was trendy for young teens of the 1970s with stuffed animals, hippie-styled imagery, bright pop colors and furniture that a little girl would typically have.