The story centers on recent widower and single father Jim Grant, a former Weather Underground anti-Vietnam War militant wanted for a bank robbery and murder.
While Ben struggles with ethical issues as a journalist, Jim and his old friends from the Weather Underground must live with the consequences of their radical past.
When Sharon Solarz, another former Weather Underground member, is arrested on October 3, 2011, an ambitious young reporter, Ben Shepard, notices an opportunity to make a name for himself with a national story.
Billy, an old hippie with a history of drug arrests who runs an organic grocery, is an old friend of Sharon Solarz and a former client of Jim's.
Spooked by the federal investigation, Jim takes his 11-year-old daughter Isabel on "a little trip", driving north at first to throw off his pursuers.
Ben concludes that Jim is really Nick Sloan, another former Weatherman, and writes an article breaking this news, creating a sensation and accelerating the FBI's interest.
She is unrepentant about her radical activism in the Weather Underground and reveals that Nick and Mimi had a love affair long ago.
Donal discourages him from looking for Mimi, but tells him to contact former SDS member, history professor Jed Lewis.
Osborne refuses to talk in front of his adopted daughter Rebecca, and Ben senses that he is hiding something important.
He doesn't want to leave Isabel behind and repeat the mistake that he and Mimi made 30 years earlier by giving up their own daughter.
Produced by Nicolas Chartier (Voltage Pictures), Redford and Bill Holderman,[4][5] the movie was filmed in Vancouver in late 2011.
[6][7] The film's "moody ... contemporary" score is by Cliff Martinez, its editor is Mark Day, and cinematography is by Adriano Goldman.
[18] In early reviews from the Venice Film Festival, Variety called the film an "unabashedly heartfelt but competent tribute to 1960s idealism ... in its stolid, old-fashioned way, it satisfies an appetite, especially among mature auds, for dialogue- and character-driven drama that gets into issues without getting too bogged down in verbiage.
[19] The Hollywood Reporter praised the cast, especially Sarandon and Marling, and termed the film "a tense yet admirably restrained thriller ...
Adapted with clarity and intelligence ... and lent distinguishing heft by its roster of screen veterans, this gripping drama provides an absorbing reflection on the courage and cost of dissent.
While it provides for some passing commentary on the journalistic process and the slow death of print media, making the ambitious reporter such a driving figure perhaps mutes the focus a little.
[22] Rex Reed wrote in The New York Observer that "From ... a dazzling display of perfect performances, to the complex emotional relationships that result in guilt by association, the disparate elements in The Company You Keep are robustly collated by the keen, well-crafted direction of a master filmmaker at the top of his form.
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