The Interview

Craig Monahan made his directorial debut with this Australian police drama in which unemployed, poverty-stricken Eddie Rodney Fleming (Hugo Weaving), after losing his wife and home, is dragged from his apartment by police and subjected to a brutal interrogation. Eventually, it becomes terrifyingly ...more

A year before Hugo Weaving achieved worldwide fame as Agent Smith, the sadistic computer program posing as a government interrogator, he was the one on the hot seat in the small Australian film The Interview. It's too bad it only got seen down under, because The Interview demonstrates an astonishing subtlety and range by the Aussie actor, which could never be showcased in epics like The Matrix or Lord of the Rings. Violently dragged from his apartment at dawn, Weaving's Eddie Fleming initially ...more