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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Film Cast:

• Richard Nixon: Anthony Hopkins
• Pat Nixon: Joan Allen
• Alexander Haig: Powers Boothe
• E. Howard Hunt: Ed Harris
• J. Edgar Hoover: Bob Hoskins
• John Mitchell: E.G. Marshall
• Ron Ziegler: David Paymer
• John Dean: David Hyde Pierce
• Henry Kissinger: Paul Sorvino
• Hannah Nixon: Mary Steenburgen
• John Ehrlichman: J.T. Walsh
• H.R. Haldeman: James Woods
• Clyde Tolson: Brian Bedford
• Charles Colson: Kevin Dunn
• Murray Chotiner: Fyvush Finkel
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower: Annabeth Gish
• Frank Nixon: Tom Bower
• Harold Nixon: Tony Goldwyn
• Jack Jones: Larry Hagman
• Nelson Rockefeller: Edward Herrmann
• Martha Mitchell: Madeline Kahn
• Trini Cardoza: Dan Hedaya
• Johnny Roselli: Tony Lo Bianco
• Herb Klein: Saul Rubinek
• Frank Sturgis: Robert Beltran
• Bob: John Cunningham
• Gordon Liddy: John Diehl
• Earl in Training Film: John C. McGinley
• TV Director: Michael Chiklis
• Richard Nixon, 19 Years Old: David Barry Gray
• Young Student: Joanna Going
• President’s Lawyer: George Plimpton
• Bernard Barker, Watergate Burglar: Lenny Vullo
• Richard Nixon, 12 Years Old: Corey Carrier
• James McCord, Watergate Burglar: Ronald von Klaussen
• Cuban Man: John Bedford Lloyd
• Eugenio Martinez, Watergate Burglar: Kamar de los Reyes
• Virgilio Gonzales, Watergate Burglar: Enrique Castillo
• Black Orator: James Pickens Jr.
• Cuban Plumber: Victor Rivers
• Sandy: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
• Moderator: Drew Snyder
• Mao Tse-Tung: Ric Young
• Donald Nixon: Sean Stone
• Arthur Nixon: Joshua Duvall Preston
• Football Player: Ian Calip
• Football Coach: Jack Wallace
• Young Pat Nixon: Julie Condra
• Happy Rockefeller: Annette Helde
• Lawyer at Party: Howard Platt
• Convention Announcer: T.J. Kennedy
• Fan #1: Harry S. Murphy
• Fan #2: Suzanne Schnulle Murphy
• Fan #3: Michael Kaufman
• Girlfriend: Pamela Dickerson
• Texas Man: O’Neal Compton
• Family Doctor: Chris Renna
• Joaquin, Hoover’s Servant: Wilson Cruz
• Edward Nixon: Mikey Stone
• Spiro Agnew: Robert Marshall
• Tricia Nixon Cox: Marley Shelton
• Bill Rogers: James Karen
• Mel Laird: Richard Fancy
• Student #1: Peter Carlin
• Student #2: Michelle Krusiec
• Protester: Wass Stevens
• Secret Service Agent #1: Tom Nicoletti
• Secret Service Agent #2: Chuck Pfeiffer
• White House Staffer: Alexander Butterfield
• White House Security: Mark Steines
• Chinese Interpreter: Bai Ling
• Air Force One Steward: Peter P. Starson Jr.
• Reporter #1: Jon Tenney
• Reporter #2: Julie Araskog
• Reporter #3: Ray Wills
• Reporter #4: John Bellucci
• Reporter #5: Zoey Zimmerman
• Rosemary Woods: Mary Rudolph
• Floor Manager #1: Clayton Townsend
• Maureen Dean: Donna Dixon
• Staffer #1: John Stockwell
• Staffer #2: Charles Haugk
• Leonid Brezhnev: Boris Sichkin
• Andre Gromyko: Fima Noveck
• Russian Interpreter: Raissa Danilova
• Helen Smith: Marilyn Rockafellow
• Bethesda Doctor: Bill Bolender
• Bethesda Nurse: Melinda Renna
• Manolo Sanchez: Tony Plana
• Richard Helms: Sam Waterston
• Narrator (voice, uncredited): Chuck Riley

Film Crew:

• Producer: Oliver Stone
• Producer: Dan Halsted
• Original Music Composer: John Williams
• Screenplay: Stephen J. Rivele
• Director of Photography: Robert Richardson
• Editor: Brian Berdan
• Screenplay: Christopher Wilkinson
• Producer: Clayton Townsend
• Producer: Andrew G. Vajna
• Associate Producer: Richard Rutowski
• Editor: Hank Corwin
• Production Design: Victor Kempster
• Art Direction: Richard F. Mays
• Art Direction: Donald B. Woodruff
• Art Direction: Margery Zweizig
• Set Decoration: Merideth Boswell
• Costume Design: Richard Hornung
• Sound Effects Editor: David Baldwin
• Supervising Sound Editor: Gregg Baxter
• Sound: Lon Bender
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Chris David
• Sound Effects Editor: Dino DiMuro
• Sound Effects Editor: Mark Lanza
• Sound Effects Editor: Nancy MacLeod
• Sound Mixer: David MacMillan
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Massey
• Sound Effects Editor: Kelly Oxford
• Supervising Sound Editor: Wylie Stateman
• Sound Editor: Rubén Domingo
• Sound Editor: Charlotte Haupt
• Prosthetics: Gary Archer
• Research Assistant: Sashy Bogdanovich

Movie Reviews:

• GenerationofSwine: 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.