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Sidney Ray Baldwin
Still Photographer -
Stephen J. Rivele
Screenplay -
Oliver Stone
Director -
Heidi Levitt
Casting -
Christopher Wilkinson
Screenplay -
Cydney Cornell
Hair Designer -
Chris Strong
Chief Lighting Technician -
Dino DiMuro
Sound Effects Editor
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GenerationofSwine 1/12/2023 12:32:01AM
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.
Anthony Hopkins
Richard NixonJames Woods
H.R. HaldemanEd Harris
E. Howard HuntMichael Chiklis
TV DirectorTony Goldwyn
Harold NixonSean Stone
Donald NixonJoan Allen
Pat NixonMary Steenburgen
Hannah Nixon