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The Laundromat
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Directed bySteven Soderbergh
Produced by
Screenplay byScott Z. Burns
Based onSecrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
by Jake Bernstein
Starring
Music byDavid Holmes
CinematographySteven Soderbergh (as Peter Andrews)
Edited bySteven Soderbergh (as Mary Ann Bernard)
Production
company
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • September 1, 2019 (Venice)
  • September 27, 2019 (United States)
Running time
95 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Laundromat (film)

The Laundromat is a 2019 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh, with a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns. It stars Meryl Streep

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The film follows Ellen Martin (Streep), whose dream vacation takes a wrong turn and leads her down a rabbit hole of shady dealings that can all be traced to one Panama City law firm, run by financially seductive partners Jürgen Mossack (Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Banderas). In a shocking denouement she soon learns that her minor predicament is only a drop in the bucket of millions of files linking off-shore drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises to the world's richest and most powerful political leaders

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Production

The Laundromat (film)

The Laundromat is a 2019 American biographical

comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh, with a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns.

It stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas,

Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Cromwell, and Sharon Stone.

The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019

. It was released theatrically on September 27, 2019, before being

released for digital streaming on October 18, 2019, by Netflix

. The film has received mixed reviews from critics.

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Premise

Release

It had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and the San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2019 It was released theatrically on September 27, 2019, before being released for digital streaming on October 18, 2019, by Netflix.

Reception

In July 2016, it was announced that Steven Soderbergh was set to produce a then-untitled Panama Papers project. Later, in April 2018, it was announced that Soderbergh would also direct the film, now titled The Laundromat. Scott Z. Burns wrote the screenplay and production was set to commence in the fall of 2018. In May 2018, it was reported that Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas were in talks to star in the film with Netflix interested in acquiring the distribution rights. Soderbergh affirmed Netflix would likely be the film's distributor in July. In October, Netflix was confirmed to be releasing the movie, with David Schwimmer and Will Forte added to the cast. That same month, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Parnell, James Cromwell, Melissa Rauch, Larry Wilmore, and Robert Patrick joined the cast of the film.

Filming

Principal photography began on October 15, 2018

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval of 43% based on 115 reviews, with an average rating of 5.55/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "The Laundromat misuses its incredible cast by taking a disappointingly blunt and unfocused approach to dramatizing the real-life events that inspired it." On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Controversy

References

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  19. ^ https://deadline.com/2019/10/netflix-laundromat-counters-laughable-lawsuit-1202762398/
  20. ^ https://deadline.com/2019/10/the-laundromat-streaming-injunction-denied-netflix-lawsuit-1202763535/

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