Photograph
courtesy La Biennale
Venice: Film Festival – The Company You Keep -
Robert Redford. Jim Grant, played by Redford is a civil rights lawyer and single father raising
his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, NY. His world is turned upside
down, when a brash young reporter named Ben Shepard, Shia LaBeouf exposes Grant’s true
identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder. After
living for more than thirty years underground as a lawyer, Grant must now go on
the run. He is the center of a nationwide manhunt and with the FBI in hot
pursuit; he sets off on a cross country journey to track down the one person
that can clear his name. Shepard knows the significance of the national news
story he has exposed and for a journalist, this is an opportunity of a
lifetime. Hell-bent on making a name for himself, he is willing to stop at
nothing to capitalize on it. He digs deep into Grant’s past. Despite warnings
from his editor and threats from the FBI, Shepard relentlessly tracks Grant
across the country. As Grant reopens old wounds and reconnects with former
members of his group, the Weather Underground, Shepard realizes something about
this man is just not adding up. With the FBI closing in, Shepard uncovers the
shocking secrets Grant has been keeping for the past three decades. As the
Grant and Shepard come face to face in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, they each must come to terms with who they really are.
Starring: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie
Christie, Richard Jenkins, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci and Nick Nolte.
Above. Director and actor, Robert Redford.
Photograph courtesy La Biennale
The Company You Keep - Susan
Sarandon
Photograph courtesy La Biennale
The Company You Keep – Shia LaBeouf
“Backstage” Venice Film Festival – Press Conference. The Company You Keep – Robert Redford and Shia LaBeouf press conference.
“Backstage” Venice Film Festival – Press Conference
Monitor. Outside the press conference
room on the third floor of the Palazzo del Casino is a monitor for press who
can’t get into the crowded conference room.
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