Club members can get sneak peek at movie "Kill the Messenger," 7 pm Sept. 30

National Press Club members are invited to an advance screening of "Kill the Messenger," a new film about journalist Gary Webb and his investigation into the CIA's role working with drug smugglers at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, at the Goethe Institute, 812 Seventh St. NW.

The event is free for Club members and their guests. To RSVP, please email your name to: [email protected] and look for a reply with confirmation.

The movie opens in theaters Oct. 10.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Bourne Legacy”)leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb.

In the 1990s, Webb's quest for the truth took him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the corridors of power in Washington -- and his investigative reporting drew the kind of attention that threatened not just his career but his family and his life.