Snowden

The film "Snowden" is a biographical thriller directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald, based on books by Luke Harding and Anatoly Kucherena. The movie stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, a CIA subcontractor who copies and leaks highly classified information from the National Security Agency beginning in 2013. Snowden meets Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley) via a dating website and they bond despite their contrasting political ideologies. He learns of the NSA's mass surveillance practices, including planting malware in computers managing government, infrastructure, and financial sectors, and ultimately becomes disillusioned with his job.