Deadline (2012 film)

Deadline is a 2012 American mystery drama film directed by Curt Hahn. The screenplay was written by former Charlotte Observer managing editor Mark Ethridge, basing it upon his novel Grievances, which was inspired by actual events. The film stars Steve Talley and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts.

Young newsparer reporter Matt Harper Steve Talley is dispatched from Nashville to cover the murder of the police chief of Amos, Alabama. There he meets Trey Hall Lauren Jenkins, a 21yearold blue blood who lives on her familys hunting plantation. She wants Matt to investigate the nearly 20yearold unsolved killing of a black teenager, Wallace Sampson Romonte Hamer. Matt believes solving the murder will jump start his career, and he begins to investigate. Being distracted, he forgets an appointment related to his upcoming wedding, which casuses his fiance Delana Calhoun Anna Felix to call off their engagement.Matt asks his editor, Walker Burns Jeremy Childs, to let him look into the murder. While Burns notes that Matt is already on thin ice with the publisher David Ditmore for a lack of productivity, Burns allows Matt some time to investigate, on the condition that politically incorrect reporter Ronnie Bullock Eric Roberts accompany him. ........

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