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starring: Joan Allen, Brian Bedford, Powers Boothe, Tom Bower, Kevin Dunn
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304078129
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304078129
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: March 04, 1997
Running Time: 191 minutes
Sales Rank: 121113
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1995
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Editorial Review:
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Oliver Stone's controversial drama about the Nixon years in the White House stars Anthony Hopkins in a genuinely great performance as the scandal-plagued president. The film attempts to wed suggestions of Nixon's formative experiences as a boy to his political connections with shady movers and shakers and finally to his self-destructive tenure in the Oval Office. The Watergate scandal is revisited rather impressionistically--it may be hard for viewers who weren't alive then to get a sense of what the crisis was about. The parade of stars playing figures in Nixon's orbit--J.T. Walsh as John Ehrlichman, James Woods as Bob Haldeman, David Hyde Pierce as John Dean, etc.--is fun if a tad distracting. Joan Allen got a well-deserved Oscar nomination as First Lady Pat Nixon, and Hopkins got one as well. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - A more personal, wiley and stylistic edition of JFK
As a filmmaker I appreciate Oliver Stone, his provactive, political, conspiratorial, curious, enigmatic, ominous visions of Americana are the stuff of high entertainment. Right or wrong, his works are wonderful cinema, it doesn't matter if his version is slanted to the left, it is a distinct vision and he is skilled at executing it.
Be that as it may Nixon is no JFK. Though both are named for presidents of the same era, one is about a murder and it's associate conspiracies-presented in staggering ... Read More
Rating:  - Hopkins as Nixon
Should you not appreciate the representation of what might be your favorite President, you should be impressed with the performance of the wonderful Anthony Hopkins! Bravo.
Rating:  - I am not a crook
Nixon was denounced by Nixon's daughters and the Disney family as an unfair portrayal of the only United States President ever to resign from office, but after watching the three plus hour epic, you are left feeling somewhat sympathetic to the man, and you have to give Nixon credit for his many accomplishments. Oliver Stone dedicated this film, and also Wall Street, to his father, Louis, a stock trader. Perhaps Oliver's father admired Nixon, so Stone wanted to give him his due. Oliver Stone always does ... Read More
Rating: - two generations of perspective
i'm playing nixon on a regular dvd player and the quality is outstanding.
but the real treat on this new re-release is the special features. in one stone explains how viewing nixon again after so many years makes you realize how one's perspective changes with time. he is SO right. as a child of the 60s i hated nixon so i largely tried to ignore him. stone made me realize that nixon is part of our history and understanding him helps us understand the times he lived and the events that still ... Read More
Rating: - Nixon -- masterpiece of brilliant, flawed President
Oliver Stone's Nixon was among the finest films of the nineties, and also among the most under appreciated. Anthony Hopkins cuts through the mystery of this complex man and captures his conflicted and wounded soul in a performance that earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor, and stands among his finest work. Both Stone and his actor are not interested in attacking Nixon, but rtather exploring his life for all its complexities and contradictions, and studying how a man could achieve so much and yet ... Read More
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