‘Stillwater’ Director Tom McCarthy on Casting Matt Damon Against Type and Amanda Knox Criticism

“Stillwater” director Tom McCarthy is responding to Amanda Knox’s recent criticism of the film, which she says appears to be “loosely based” on her life.

After denouncing the Matt Damon movie "Stillwater" in a recent Twitter thread, Amanda Knox explained why she spoke out about the movie that was inspired by her real-life case.  "Stillwater" director Tom McCarthy has previously said that the movie is inspired by the 34-year-old who, along with Raffaele Sollecito, was twice convicted and later acquitted in the 2007 murder of Knox’s roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy.The film sees Damon, 50, play a father whose daughter finds herself in

Amanda Knox and her husband, Christopher Robinson, have a baby on the way.

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William Earl Amanda Knox, an American exchange student who spent nearly four years in Italian prison for the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher before being acquitted in 2015, was the inspiration for the just-released “Stillwater,” starring Matt Damon and directed and co-written by Tom McCarthy.Although “Stillwater” spins a fictitious story, McCarthy has not been shy about name-checking Knox during the press cycle, and a Vanity Fair interview with her name in the headline inspired

Amanda Knox is sharing her thoughts on Matt Damon‘s new movie, Stillwater.

engrossing drama “Stillwater.” Bill’s life, however, is hardly ho-hum. An Oklahoma oil rig worker, he isn’t traveling in the seaside city to take in the sights and nosh on foie gras terrine; his college-aged daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), has been imprisoned for a year in Marseille for the murder of her roommate she claims she didn’t commit.

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Stillwater being falsely marketed as a Taken-style thriller.The film stars Damon as a blue-collar worker who tries to exonerate his daughter from a murder charge while she is imprisoned in France.“When my producer told me about the movie, and what it’s about, it’s a guy who goes to save his daughter, I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be a franchise thing?” Damon said on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast this week.The actor became concerned that Stillwater would be presented in a similar light in order to tap

Before there was Bennifer, there was the bromance of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Matt Damon stepped out on the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie Stillwater in New York City, and he brought along some very special guests.