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New Susan Sarandon Film Criticized by Mother of Slain Journalist in SyriaJeremy BarrDiane Foley, mother of journalist James Foley, says the drama 'Viper Club' was made without her advance knowledge, consent or participation.Diane Foley had to see it with her own eyes, so she did, traveling from New Hampshire to Toronto to catch a screening of a new film, Viper Club, at the Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday.After watching the film, which stars Susan Sarandon, Foley was more convinced than ever that her life story was taken without her advance knowledge, consent or participation and made into a motion picture, scheduled to hit theaters in late October. She calls the screening a "very upsetting experience."Foley is a nurse and Sarandon's character, "Helen," is a nurse. Her son, James Foley, was a freelance journalist who was abducted while reporting in Syria in 2012 and whose brutal killing by the Islamic State was taped and broadcast around the world in August 2014. In Viper Club, Helen's son, "Andy" (Julian Morris) is a freelance journalist who is abducted by the Islamic State while reporting in Syria and meets the same fate as James.Read more at: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/viper-club-movie-criticized-by-slain-journalist-james-foleys-mother-1142424
