Frost/Nixon
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon in 1977, three years after the scandal that ended his presidency.
14 October 1938, Akron, Ohio, USA
23 March 1970, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
1 January 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
1975, New Zealand
16 November 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 August 1983, Canton, Ohio, USA
14 April 1976, Toledo, Ohio, USA
10 September 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 September 1966, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
26 October 1976, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
7 July 1965, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
4 November 1916, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
16 September 1971, Leominster, Massachusetts, USA
18 May 1979, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA
22 August 1930, New York City, New York, USA
22 February 1975, Detroit, Michigan, USA
October 28, 2014
Howard has successfully made an okay, watchable movie, kept from greatness only by his undying artistic blandness.
October 28, 2014
Frost/Nixon is smart and involving, a thoroughly grown-up and carefully made drama about the real-life, on-air showdown between a lightweight TV personality and a disgraced ex-president.
October 28, 2014
Both leads are outstanding. Langella is especially mesmerizing as the calculating grand manipulator. It's not an impression of the former president, but a piece of his essence.
October 28, 2014
It's a credit to the actor that by the end, Langella is living, it seems, in Nixon's skin.
January 23, 2009
The outcome isn't half as conflicted as you might imagine, though it's hard to argue that Howard brings anything new to Morgan's play.
October 28, 2014
The movie is essentially a chamber piece pivoting on two beautifully nuanced performances.
December 25, 2008
All this makes for great entertainment on the big screen, though the real legacy of the Nixon interviews is more vexing than Morgan would have us understand.
October 28, 2014
You never feel like you're watching a play on film: The way Morgan has opened up the proceedings in his screenplay feels organic under the direction of Ron Howard, who has crafted his finest film yet, and one of the year's best.
October 28, 2014
The magnificently-flawed former US president Richard Milhous Nixon, as embodied by Frank Langella, is a magnetic presence in Ron Howard's adaptation of Peter Morgan's stageplay.
February 08, 2009
Nixon is infinitely more complex than George W. Bush, which is probably why this one slice of his life is more intriguing than "W," which covers decades.
December 25, 2008
Plays often lose their energy when adapted for the screen. But even on the stage, Frost/Nixon had a cinematic dynamism, and Howard has only enhanced that quality.
October 28, 2014
In its glib and reductionist way, it works like a charm. Or better yet, like television. Which, finally, is a compliment.
