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.