Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 08/19/2008
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 213 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach,
Nixon jumps back and forth between many different periods and events, from
Nixon's strict upbringing at the hands of his Quaker mother, through the many peaks and valleys of his political career, to his downfall in the wake of the Watergate scandal. The facts of his life are blended with supposition and speculation to create a portrait that is often critical of the man's policies but displays an unexpected compassion toward his failings as a human being.
Anthony Hopkins stars as
Nixon,
Joan Allen plays his long-suffering wife Pat,
Mary Steenburgen portrays his mother Hannah,
Bob Hoskins is cast as J. Edgar Hoover,
Powers Boothe plays Alexander Haig,
Paul Sorvino portrays Henry Kisinger, and
Ed Harris plays E. Howard Hunt.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
