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   super70s to All   
   The Umbrella Man (2018)   
   23 Mar 21 04:33:26   
   
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   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   It's November 1983 and interest is high in the assassination of Pres.   
   John F. Kennedy which happened exactly 20 years earlier. After a   
   Pittsburgh couple loses their 8-year-old son in a hunting accident in   
   which the probably intoxicated shooter is judged not liable, the father   
   begins reeling into alcoholism and depression, loses his job, and   
   becomes interested in a local JFK assassination conspiracy group,   
   convinced a conspiracy was also behind no one being held responsible for   
   his son's death. He becomes one of the best assassination researchers of   
   them all, focusing in particular on the mysterious "umbrella man"   
   photographed at the assassination scene. Asked to make a presentation at   
   a JFK assassination convention in New Orleans, he encounters "Jackie," a   
   roving prostitute dressed up in a modified suit that resembles Jackie   
   Kennedy's clothing on that infamous day. As the pair travel to Dealy   
   Plaza in Dallas so he can confirm his suspicion about the umbrella man,   
   can Jackie help him come to the realization that a Grand Conspiracy   
   isn't behind every tragedy and, as her grandmother once put it,   
   "sometimes things just happen"? No brand name stars in this well paced   
   and directed indie, just an intelligent movie that's particularly   
   relevant in 2021 America and a case study in how vulnerable people can   
   be taken in by conspiracy theorists.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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