Nixon (1995)

• 72%
• 1995
• Drame
• Histoire
• Anthony Hopkins
• Joan Allen
• Powers Boothe

Écrivain, Producteur et Directeur de Oliver Stone exploration of former Président Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings dans law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat (Joan Allen). The contradictions dans his character are revealed early in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochiste Dames de la parole. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy, the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Cependant, bien que wholly lacking, son charisme, Nixon restes a brilliant political opérateur, seizing the opportunity provided by the backlash against the antiwar movement to take the Presidency en 1968. It is only when safely d'office, running far ahead in the polls for the 1972 Presidential election, that his growing paranoïa comes to full flower, triggering the Watergate scandal.