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Nixon

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Nixon

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

6.8(403) 12/22/1995 3h 12m
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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.

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Top Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

Richard Nixon

Joan Allen

Joan Allen

Pat Nixon

Powers Boothe

Powers Boothe

Alexander Haig

Ed Harris

Ed Harris

E. Howard Hunt

Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins

J. Edgar Hoover

E.G. Marshall

E.G. Marshall

John Mitchell

David Paymer

David Paymer

Ron Ziegler

David Hyde Pierce

David Hyde Pierce

John Dean

Directed by

Oliver Stone

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Reviews

GenerationofSwine

10/10

1/12/2023

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 a

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