Michael Sheen

Frank Langella

Kevin Bacon

Sam Rockwell

Matthew Macfadyen

Oliver Platt

Rebecca Hall

Toby Jones

Andy Milder

Kate Jennings Grant

Gabriel Jarret

Jim Meskimen

Patty McCormack

Geoffrey Blake

Clint Howard

Rance Howard

Gavin Grazer

Simon James

Eloy Casados

Jay White

Wil Albert

Keith MacKechnie

Penny L. Moore

Mark Simich

Janneke Williamson

Jenn Gotzon Chandler

Yvette Rachelle

Ron Howard

Peter Morgan

Patrick Tendai Pfupajena

Jane Jenkins

Kathy Nelson

Eric Fellner

David Bernardi

Colleen Callaghan

Linda Leiter Sharp

Daniel Pinder

Tim Bevan

Salvatore Totino

William M. Connor

Andrew Rowlands

Kathleen McGill

Kim Santantonio

Greg Funk

Hans Zimmer

Daniel P. Hanley

Sherry Gallarneau

Ralph Nelson Jr.

Brian Grazer

Edouard F. Henriques

Elizabeth Hoel-Chang

Mike Hill

Daniel Orlandi

Susan Benjamin

Michelle Brattson

Merribelle Anderson

Debra Hayward

Natasha Allegro

Karyn Huston

Robin Beauchesne

Sabine Roller

Karen Kehela Sherwood

Janet Hirshenson

Michael Corenblith

Daniel R. Purinton

Liza Chasin

Todd Hallowell

Rick Avery

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Jack

I watched this film without knowing almost anything about the actual events that are depicted in this film. What a surprise it was! The cast did an amazing job to reflect the actual characters in history while the director did a stellar job in representing it.

Would I watch it again? I don't think so. Would I make my friends watch it? Definitely!

I guess I'm giving it a 10 out of 10 for the acting, for the lighting, and for the attempt.

In other words this is a movie that you want to watch, a movie that will probably be enjoyed (unless you find movies like this boring, and, if you do, you've already made up your mind not to watch it).

However, it fails in the execution. Frost/Nixon should have been a struggle between minds, a chess game, and because of that it needed to have almost a paranoia to it. A tension that could be felt as one side attempted to take down the other.

It missed the opportunity there. Possibly because it was only an interview, possibly because the results of which didn't really matter, either way it missed the tension boat and the film ultimately suffers for it. What could have been All the President's Men turned into something well done, but ultimately forgettable for failure to really develop the mood to set the pace.

However, the acting was superb and the film certainly looks great. It is a pleasure to watch, it just never gets to the emotional level it needed to be brilliant and memorable.

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Though it really only comes alive in the last half hour, this is still a powerful dramatisation of the setting up and execution of the interviews between the disgraced US President (Frank Langella) and the enthusiastic British talk show host (Michael Sheen). It was the latter who initiated a proposal with lawyer "Swifty" Lazar (Toby Jones) to suggest the president might like to tell his story. The Nixon camp considered Frost a bit of a manageable lightweight and decide that if he can raise the $600,000 cash, then why not? It takes a while to negotiate the terms, but by 1977 all is agreed and they sit down for the first in a series of two hour recordings. Despite a strong start, opinions seem to solidify around Frost being, indeed, a bit too weak to elicit anything newsworthy from his savvy political opponent. Luckily, Frost has the viscerally anti-Nixon James Reston (Sam Rockwell) in his camp and some serious research unearths things that are going to make it very difficult for Nixon to continue to try to remain as aloof and statesmanlike as he would like. It's Langella who really comes into his own as, believe it or not, he actually engenders a little sympathy towards the conclusion. That's all history so no jeopardy there, but I think the characterisation of the president was solid and engagingly delivered an image of a man who definitely believed in himself! Sheen is adequate, as is the weakly cast Matthew Macfadyen as producer John Birt and Kevin Bacon as Nixon's right hand man and borderline disciple Jack Brennan. The writing is occasionally potent here and as we are exposed to Ron Howard's version of events, it gradually becomes quite a compelling postulation to watch and opine about.

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400 million people were waiting for the truth.

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Written by Jack on Thu May 21 2020

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