TIFF adds films about Dan Rather and Hank Williams to 2015 lineup

TORONTO – Films featuring Susan Sarandon, Drew Barrymore, Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett have been added to the lineup at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Organizers have announced more big titles for the festival’s 40th edition, including the closing night film, Mr. Right.

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It’s about a woman who falls in love with a hitman, and stars Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick and Tim Roth.

Redford plays Dan Rather and Blanchett is his CBS News producer in Truth, about the reporting controversy that forced the longtime newsman to retire; and Tom Hiddleston stars in the Hank Williams biopic, I Saw the Light.

Sarandon, Elle Fanning and Naomi Watts star in About Ray, about a teenager who decides to transition from female to male; and Barrymore and Toni Collette star in the cancer comedy-drama Miss You Already.

The Toronto International Film Festival runs Sept. 10 to 20.