Nixon (1995)
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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 7
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Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon jumps back and forth between many different periods and events, from Nixon's strict upbringing at the hands of his Quaker mother, through the many peaks and valleys of his political career, to his downfall
Dec 22, 1995 Wide
Jun 15, 1999
Buena Vista Pictures
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Cast
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Anthony Hopkins
Richard M. Nixon -
Joan Allen
Pat Nixon -
Powers Boothe
Alexander Haig -
Ed Harris
E. Howard Hunt -
Bob Hoskins
J. Edger Hoover -
E.G. Marshall
John Mitchell -
Julie Araskog
Reporter #2 -
Brian Bedford
Clyde Tolson -
Tony Lo Bianco
Johnny Roselli -
Bill Bolender
Bethesda Doctor -
Tom Bower
Frank Nixon -
Larry Hagman
'Jack Jones' -
Corey Carrier
Richard M. Nixon at 12 -
Michael Chiklis
Tv Director -
Julie Condra
Young Pat Nixon -
John Cunningham
Bob -
John Diehl
G. Gordon Liddy -
Donna Dixon
Maureen Dean -
Kevin Dunn
Charles Colson -
Richard Fancy
Mel Laird -
Fyvush Finkel
Murray Chotiner -
Annabeth Gish
Julie Nixon -
Joanna Going
Young Student -
Tony Goldwyn
Harold Nixon -
David Barry Gray
Richard M. Nixon at 19 -
Charles Haugk
Staffer #2 -
Dan Hedaya
Trina Cardoza -
Edward Herrmann
Nelson Rockefeller -
Madeline Kahn
Martha Mitchell -
James Karen
Bill Rogers -
John Bedford Lloyd
Cuban Man -
Robert Marshall
Spiro Agnew -
John C. McGinley
Man in newsreel -
David Paymer
Ron Ziegler -
James Pickens Jr.
Black Orator -
David Hyde Pierce
John Dean -
Tony Plana
Manolo Sanchez -
Howard Platt
Lawyer At Party -
George Plimpton
President's Lawyer -
Victor Rivers
Cuban Plumber -
Marilyn Rockafellow
Helen Smith -
Saul Rubinek
Herb Klein -
Marley Shelton
Tricia Nixon -
Boris Sichkin
Leonid Brezhnev -
Drew Snyder
Moderator -
Paul Sorvino
Henry Kissinger -
Mary Steenburgen
Hannah Nixon -
Sean Stone
Donald Nixon -
Jon Tenney
Reporter #1 -
Ronald Von Klaussen
James Mccord -
Jack Wallace
Football Coach -
J.T. Walsh
John Ehlichman -
Bridgette Wilson
Sandy -
Robert Beltran
Frank Sturgis -
John Stockwell
Staffer #1 -
Oliver Stone
Voice-over during credi... -
Clayton Townsend
Floor Manager #1 -
James Woods
H.R. Haldeman -
Ling Bai
Chinese Interpreter -
Michael Herz & Llyod Kauf...
Fan #3 -
Harry Murphy
Fan #1 -
Fima Noveck
Andre Gromyko -
Chuck Preiffer
Secret Service Agent #2 -
Lenny Vullo
Bernard Barker -
Ric Young
Mao-tse-tung -
O'Neal Compton
Texas Man -
Wilson Cruz
Joaquin -
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All Critics (62) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (15) | DVD (18)
As wayward and self-regarding as its subject, the film long overstays its welcome.
Top CriticWhat it finally adds up to is a huge mixed bag of waxworks and daring, a film that is furiously ambitious even when it goes flat, and startling even when it settles for eerie, movie-of-the-week mimicry.
Without question, Nixon dwarfs everything in the American cinema since Schindler's List.
Nixon far overstays its welcome with an increasingly tedious final hour devoted largely to slogging through the minutiae of Watergate.
Nixon starts, like a horror movie, on a dark and stormy night, with the president prowling around a room of the White House like Dracula in his lair.
Thoughts of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear come to mind; here, again, is a ruler destroyed by his fatal flaws. There's something almost majestic about the process: As Nixon goes down in this film, there is no gloating, but a watery sigh, as of a great ship
Dense psychodrama of much-disliked U.S. president.
You could say that Nixon is Oliver Stone's Citizen Kane, and not necessarily mean it as praise.
The filmmaker's deftness at evoking theme and sentiment through editorial montages within individual dramatic scenes reaches an apotheosis here.
It's clear that Stone hates Nixon with a capital H.
It's the Shakespearian treatment that makes Nixon fascinating.
A convincing blend of Shakespearean tragedy and Citizen Kane, Nixon paints the thirty-seventh President of the United States as a uniquely American tragic hero...[Blu-Ray]
Some of Nixon's scenes are standouts, but it's Hopkins' crazy rants that you won't forget.
An epic film deserves an epic DVD treatment, and Nixon gets one.
A staggering work of empathy for Stone.
The combination of Oliver Stone and Richard Nixon, two paranoids from opposite ends of the political spectrum, is a match made in cinematic heaven.
For all its unwieldy temporal scope and narrowness of perspective, Nixon is an amazingly graceful beast, flawed yet invigorating, packed with enough material that will fascinate and irk moviegoers of all stripes for quite a time to come.
A riveting tragedy.
A hulking tyrannosaur of a movie, lusty and fierce, crashing around for all the world to see, majestic in its size and scope though it's also an instant anachronism.
Audience Reviews for Nixon
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Super Reviewer
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- Richard M. Nixon: Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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- Richard M. Nixon: People look at you and they see who they want to be. They look at me and they see what they are.
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