Medium Cool

Beyond the age of innocence... into the age of awareness.

The time: 1968. The place: Chicago, setting of the Democratic National convention and a hotbed of political and social change. As protesters and police face off in the streets, fate brings together an unlikely pair: John (Robert Forster), a dispassionate TV news cameraman, and Eileen (Verna Bloom), a warmhearted Appalachian raising her son in a Chicago ghetto.

Their relationship deepens and so does the impending danger, as John and Eileen are swept into the maelstrom of fear of violence that has captured the attention of an entire nation.

Filmed against the backdrop of the '68 convention by Oscar®-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool captures the soul of a turbulent era and takes a penetrating look at America's continuing fascination with sensationalism and violence.