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Boston Marathon bomb­ing dra­ma Patri­ots Day gets a rous­ing trailer

05 Oct 2016

Words by Elena Lazic

Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg reteam for this decid­ed­ly low-key human drama.

Oh yes: Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have anoth­er film on the way, and it looks very good indeed. Fol­low­ing their recent dis­as­ter movie Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon, about the BP oil spill, the pair’s next col­lab­o­ra­tion is a drama­ti­sa­tion of the 2013 Boston Marathon bomb­ing which left three peo­ple dead and hun­dreds more injured.

Judg­ing by this first offi­cial trail­er, Patri­ots Day looks to be anoth­er rous­ing cel­e­bra­tion of the imper­vi­ous every­day virtues that define Amer­i­ca. But there’s also enough here to sug­gest that WahlPerg are going for some­thing more restrained, more ten­der and even more human with their lat­est spin on a recent true sto­ry. It’s packed with act­ing heavy­weights too – John Good­man, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Mon­aghan and JK Sim­mons all co-star.

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Patri­ots Day is set for release 27 Jan­u­ary, 2017.

Colourful film poster for 'Patriots Day' featuring text and a striking abstract design of red, white and blue lines.
Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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