About the movie
A sexually and racially charged film noir from Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels (Precious), `The Paperboy` takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) and his partner Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo) chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward`s younger brother Jack (Zac Efron) and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), the pair try to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack) was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
Based on the provocative bestselling novel by Pete Dexter (`MulhollandFalls`, `Rush`), `The Paperboy` peels back a sleepy small town`s decades-old facade of Southern gentility to reveal a quagmire of evil as dark as a Florida bayou.