The Assassination of Richard Nixon dvd movie.|
The Assassination of Richard Nixon buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices |
 |
List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2004 DVD Release : 26 April, 2005 |
| [ + Zoom ] [ Buy Now ] | DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
The Assassination of Richard Nixon description Sean Penn (looking rather Rupert Pupkin-like) is Samuel Bicke, whose life, circa 1974, has become unbearable. His wife (Naomi Watts) has left him, his dead-end sales job is killing him--even his best friend (Don Cheadle) has had enough. Bicke's a loser, but at least he's an honest one. Nixon, the epitome of dishonesty, becomes the locus of his rage, so Bicke devises a plan to eliminate him. Paul Schrader claims he finished writing Taxi Driver before the real-life Byck attempted to assassinate the president. Maybe so, but the similarities are hard to ignore (and "Bickle" sounds a lot like "Byck"). Niels Mueller (Tadpole) doesn't disguise the fact that his debut was inspired by the guy. If The Assassination of Richard Nixon doesn't hit Taxi Driver's (admittedly lofty) heights, it's still a discomfiting look at a man determined to leave his mark on the world, only to become a footnote. --Kathleen C. Fennessy |
|
|
| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Drew Me In and Fasciated Me |
| I was offered a free rental today, and casting around for something I had never seen before, I grabbed this one thinking it would be about how Nixon was outed from office, not actually assassinated. I put it in on background as I struggled with creating the index to a 550 page new book, and within 15 minutes I stopped and the movie had my undivided attention.
Sean Penn is perfect, deep, emotional, and inspires commitment to the movie and to his plight as a failure who is honest. As I am a student of how "honest" governments are in fact a form of legalized organized crime, I may have appreciated this movie more than most, but I do not hesitate to recommend it to anyone. What price integrity? Other DVDs that have captured my imagination (we are limited to ten links) include: [[ASIN:B000MV8AAY Death of a President (Widescreen)]] [[ASIN:B000067J1H Fight Club (Widescreen Edition)]] [[ASIN:B00008CMR5 A Man Called Horse]] [[ASIN:B0001JXOVC The Last Samurai (Two-Disc Special Edition)]] [[ASIN:0800177967 Glory]] [[ASIN:B00006ADD5 Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)]] [[ASIN:B000BYA5GE Lord of War (Full Screen)]] [[ASIN:6305047456 Hackers]] [[ASIN:B0007UDC80 The Snow Walker]] [[ASIN:B00003CXA4 Gandhi]] |
|
|