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Gregor Tavenner
First Assistant Camera -
John Williams
Original Music Composer -
Oliver Stone
Director -
David Sardi
First Assistant Director -
Cydney Cornell
Hair Designer -
Kenneth Wannberg
Music Editor -
Bruce Richardson
Supervising Dialogue Editor -
John Blake
Key Makeup Artist
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GenerationofSwine 1/12/2023 12:32:01 AM
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 NixonAnnabeth Gish
Julie Nixon EisenhowerBai Ling
Chinese InterpreterJames Woods
H.R. HaldemanEd Harris
E. Howard HuntDan Hedaya
Trini CardozaPaul Sorvino
Henry KissingerMadeline Kahn
Martha Mitchell