Film Snail

6.9

Nixon

R·1995·192m

Drama

History

Drama

History

Summary

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.

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Richard Nixon

Joan Allen

Pat Nixon

Powers Boothe

Alexander Haig

Ed Harris

E. Howard Hunt

Bob Hoskins

J. Edgar Hoover

E.G. Marshall

John Mitchell

David Paymer

Ron Ziegler

David Hyde Pierce

John Dean

Paul Sorvino

Henry Kissinger

Mary Steenburgen

Hannah Nixon

J. T. Walsh

John Ehrlichman

James Woods

H.R. Haldeman

Brian Bedford

Clyde Tolson

Kevin Dunn

Charles Colson

Fyvush Finkel

Murray Chotiner

Annabeth Gish

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Tom Bower

Frank Nixon

Tony Goldwyn

Harold Nixon

Larry Hagman

Jack Jones

Edward Herrmann

Nelson Rockefeller

Madeline Kahn

Martha Mitchell

Dan Hedaya

Trini Cardoza

Tony Lo Bianco

Johnny Roselli

Saul Rubinek

Herb Klein

Robert Beltran

Frank Sturgis

John Cunningham

Bob

John Diehl

Gordon Liddy

John C. McGinley

Earl in Training Film

Michael Chiklis

TV Director

David Barry Gray

Richard Nixon, 19 Years Old

Joanna Going

Young Student

George Plimpton

President's Lawyer

Lenny Vullo

Bernard Barker, Watergate Burglar

Corey Carrier

Richard Nixon, 12 Years Old

Ronald von Klaussen

James McCord, Watergate Burglar

John Bedford Lloyd

Cuban Man

Kamar de los Reyes

Eugenio Martinez, Watergate Burglar

Enrique Castillo

Virgilio Gonzales, Watergate Burglar

James Pickens Jr.

Black Orator

Victor Rivers

Cuban Plumber

Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

Sandy

Drew Snyder

Moderator

Ric Young

Mao Tse-Tung

Sean Stone

Donald Nixon

Joshua Duvall Preston

Arthur Nixon

Ian Calip

Football Player

Jack Wallace

Football Coach

Julie Condra

Young Pat Nixon

Annette Helde

Happy Rockefeller

Howard Platt

Lawyer at Party

T.J. Kennedy

Convention Announcer

Harry S. Murphy

Fan #1

Suzanne Schnulle Murphy

Fan #2

Michael Kaufman

Fan #3

Pamela Dickerson

Girlfriend

O'Neal Compton

Texas Man

Chris Renna

Family Doctor

Wilson Cruz

Joaquin, Hoover's Servant

Mikey Stone

Edward Nixon

Robert Marshall

Spiro Agnew

Marley Shelton

Tricia Nixon Cox

James Karen

Bill Rogers

Richard Fancy

Mel Laird

Peter Carlin

Student #1

Michelle Krusiec

Student #2

Wass Stevens

Protester

Tom Nicoletti

Secret Service Agent #1

Chuck Pfeiffer

Secret Service Agent #2

Alexander Butterfield

White House Staffer

Mark Steines

White House Security

Bai Ling

Chinese Interpreter

Peter P. Starson Jr.

Air Force One Steward

Jon Tenney

Reporter #1

Julie Araskog

Reporter #2

Ray Wills

Reporter #3

John Bellucci

Reporter #4

Zoey Zimmerman

Reporter #5

Mary Rudolph

Rosemary Woods

Clayton Townsend

Floor Manager #1

Donna Dixon

Maureen Dean

John Stockwell

Staffer #1

Charles Haugk

Staffer #2

Boris Sichkin

Leonid Brezhnev

Fima Noveck

Andre Gromyko

Raissa Danilova

Russian Interpreter

Marilyn Rockafellow

Helen Smith

Bill Bolender

Bethesda Doctor

Melinda Renna

Bethesda Nurse

Tony Plana

Manolo Sanchez

Sam Waterston

Richard Helms

Chuck Riley

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

Mao Zedong

Self (Archive Footage)

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Oliver Stone

Screenplay

Christopher Wilkinson

Screenplay

Stephen J. Rivele

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

January 12, 2023

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.