The Trick

2021 • 89 minutes
71%
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Eligible
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About this movie

The Trick tells the story of world-renowned, respected scientist Professor Philip Jones, who found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyber terrorism in 2009. The Trick, starring Jason Watkins (Line of Duty, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies) and Victoria Hamilton (Doctor Foster, Life), tells the story of world-renowned, respected scientist Professor Philip Jones (Watkins), [the Director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)] at the University of East Anglia, who found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyber terrorism in 2009.