Nixon

12/22/19953h 12m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Triumphant in Victory, Bitter in Defeat. He Changed the World, But Lost a Nation. ~

Overview:

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.

Director:

Oliver Stone

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$44,000,000.00

Revenue:

$13,681,765.00

Key words:

usa president
washington dc, usa
government
presidential election
1970s
watergate scandal
biography
historical figure
richard nixon
1960s
ambiguous
disapproving
disdainful
disheartening
earnest
empathetic
frustrated

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

~ as ~

Richard Nixon

Joan Allen

~ as ~

Pat Nixon

Powers Boothe

~ as ~

Alexander Haig

Ed Harris

~ as ~

E. Howard Hunt

Bob Hoskins

~ as ~

J. Edgar Hoover

E.G. Marshall

~ as ~

John Mitchell

David Paymer

~ as ~

Ron Ziegler

David Hyde Pierce

~ as ~

John Dean

Paul Sorvino

~ as ~

Henry Kissinger

Mary Steenburgen

~ as ~

Hannah Nixon

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Reviews (1)

GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
Wow, this was a pretty fair movie wasn't it? And it came from Oliver Stone. One would almost expect it to be a paranoid mess, but it was done pretty well.

Hopkins did a great job too... except maybe looking a little too old for the role, but he captured a lot of Nixon's mannerisms, a lot of how he spoke and moved. It was far from uncanny, but he really did nail the essence of the character and that is almost better than cloning him.

Joan Allen fails though. She doesn't exactly ape Pat as well as she could and you are left with the impression that she doesn't understand who she was depicting.

And then you have little hints at the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories and, even though I supported them, I don't think that they had a place in a movie about Nixon. They felt alien and X-Files and you are left doubting that said conversation ever took place.

Aside from all of that, though, this seems like a great film that was fairly done, about someone that it would have been far too easy to stereotype as a drooling monster. Stone humanized him, and that took heart and talent.