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Genres:
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Drama /
History
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Release:
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Director:
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Ron Howard
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Actors:
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Michael Sheen,
Andy Milder,
Frank Langella,
Sam Rockwell,
Kevin Bacon,
Matthew Macfadyen,
Oliver Platt,
Rebecca Hall,
Toby Jones,
Kate Jennings Grant,
Gabriel Jarret,
Jim Meskimen,
Patty McCormack,
Geoffrey Blake,
Clint Howard
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Duration:
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122 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)134.5
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Plot Summary:
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Oscar-winning impresario Ron Howard (Da Vinci Practices, A Incomparable Wits) brings to the writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen dowager, The Form King of Scotland) electrifying clash between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to preserve, and David Frost, a jet-surroundings video receiver personality with a name to make, in the untold story of the historic encounter that changed both: Frost/Nixon. Reprising their roles from Morgan's stageplay are Frank Langella, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Nixon, and Michael Gleam, who fully inhabited the surrender of Frost onstage in L... ondon and New York.
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Oscar Hype
Every year a bunch of serious dramas get released in the run up to the Academy awards. And every a year at least one film gets over rated in all the hype. Frost/Nixon is this years film.
Don't get me wrong, Frank Langella's performance makes it well worth watching. But (Sam Rockwell aside) the supporting actors are either blindly cast (Toby Jones is slapped into just about everything these days and played a similar role in 'W') or as in the case of Micheal Sheen, they are out right cringeworthy.
Sheen's impersonation is impresive in one way, but that's what it is - an impersonation, not an actor's dramatisation. It's a blend of David Frost sure, with the winks to camera feel of Austin Powers and Alan Partridge so inappropriate against Langella&...
The power of the close up
Fascinating new film from mainstream filmmaker Ron Howard about the media event of the 20th century watched by over 400 million people worldwide. The film follows entertainer, performer and playboy David Frost in his quest to become a serious journalist by interviewing the recently disgraced Richard Nixon. Nixon, the only American president ever to resign from office, wants to find a way back east to Washington from his self imposed exile in California, accepts the offer of an interview believing Frost to be a soft touch. The resulting 2 hours feature Frost and his meetings with his researchers and producers, advertisers and of course, with Nixon himself. The film as a whole works on may levels with a perfect balance of political intrigue, humour and tension. Howard’s direction is un...
Frost/Nixon
Kenneth TuranRon Howard is celebrating his 50th year in show business, and if you learn anything in that span, it's not to mess with a good thing. In Frost/Nixon, the veteran director smoothly demonstrates the value of that attitude, taking a silk purse of a project, making it even silkier and producing perhaps the best work of his career in the process.
The silk purse in question is a play with a considerable pedigree. Written by Peter Morgan, best known for the Helen Mirren-starring The Queen, Frost/Nixon had highly successful runs in both London and New York and won the best actor Tony for Frank Langella in the process.
Despite this success, Frost/Nixon was not an easy sell in today's adult-phobic film marketplace, even with an Oscar-winning...
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