Denial (2016 film)

Denial
Denial
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mick Jackson
Screenplay by	David Hare
Based on	History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier; by Deborah Lipstadt
Produced by	Gary Foster; Russ Krasnoff;
Starring	Rachel Weisz; Tom Wilkinson; Timothy Spall; Andrew Scott; Jack Lowden; Caren Pistorius; Alex Jennings;
Cinematography	Haris Zambarloukos
Edited by	Justine Wright
Music by	Howard Shore
Production; companies	Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment; Shoebox Films; Participant Media; BBC Films;
Distributed by	Bleecker Street (North America); Entertainment One (United Kingdom);
Release dates	11 September 2016 (TIFF); 30 September 2016 (United States); 27 January 2017 (United Kingdom);
Running time	110 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; United States;
Language	English
Budget	$10 million
Box office	$9.2 million

Denial is a 2016 biographical film directed by Mick Jackson and written by David Hare, based on Deborah Lipstadt's 2005 book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. It dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by David Irving, a Holocaust denier, for libel. It stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden, Caren Pistorius and Alex Jennings.

Denial premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2016.^[4] It was theatrically released in the United States by Bleecker Street on 30 September 2016,^[5] and in the United Kingdom by Entertainment One on 27 January 2017.

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