Frost/Nixon (R) 122 minutes B-
A frosty Nixon talks Watergate and other failures in monumental interviews
Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, and Sam Rockwell
This is an interesting and intriguing look at the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film is well done but missing that extra something that could make it a great flick. Film critic Dana Stevens used terms like "gladiatorial event" and "journalistic rumble in the jungle" to describe these interviews and indeed it was an exercise in strategic journalism... one like I've never seen before.
After the film I seeked out video footage from the original interviews, Ron Howard did a good job of bottling some of the essence and mannerisms from the real life drama. Frost/Nixon is worth seeing but I don't expect it to win this year's best picture Oscar.
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