All the President's Men

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All the President's Men

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All the President's Men

Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Meredith Baxter, Ned Beatty, Stephen Collins, Penny Fuller, Robert Walden

A reconstruction of the discovery of the White House link with the Watergate affair by two young reporters from the Washington Post.

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  • bradwest
    February 15, 2009
    bradwest
    Even though you know this story, you get caught up in this film. It has real tension thorugh many sections that keeps you in the moment with the reporters trying to break the story. Quite an achievement in flim for what had to be a difficult translation from the book.
  • sononothing
    September 7, 2008
    sononothing
    All the President's Men is a political thriller. Unlike typical political thrillers this one is based on a true event- the burglary of Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate office complex. The film shows the long road that Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Berns...( read more)tein (Dustin Hoffman) traveled to get from a simple botched burglary to one of the greatest government conspiracy in U.S. history.

    Redford and Hoffman were at their peak and not doing crap back in 1976. Their performances are riveting, especially since most of the film they are on the phone. They keep the film alive while showing some of the ho-hum life of a newspaper reporter. The best portrayal is Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, the editor of the Washington Post. Robards won the Oscar for this role and he gives it the old school life and charm and no bullshit attitude that you would expect out of this character (Robards has been commended for nailing Bradlee even though they never met). A stellar performance.

    Most people associate the Watergate break-in as Nixon's folly and that two reporters toppled a Presidency because of it. This film gives the details of how long and wide the road was to Nixon quitting in 1974. There was more to this than a simple burglary. All the President's Men shows this while not boring the audience by dryly going through the facts. The characters have life breathed into them and that's what makes the film so great.
  • sanjurosamurai
    February 13, 2008
    sanjurosamurai
    intersting flick about a guy with a deep throat
  • darmstrong3
    October 8, 2007
    darmstrong3
    The book is way better. The movie moves along ok but then it is like they ran out of funding or something and decided to just finsih with text only. Seemed like a very hokie ending.
  • AgentLexi2132
    August 12, 2007
    AgentLexi2132
    ,.............
  • 0001hrs
    November 27, 2009
    0001hrs
    A must-see for any budding journalist.
  • Dougman11287
    November 20, 2009
    Dougman11287
    I really liked how this film didn't try to overstate the significance of the Watergate cover-up and investigation process. It was presented more as a fairly straight-forward story of how Woodward and Bernstein uncovered the entire scandal. In other words, this movie minimized t...( read more)he high-handed talk about how important the whole thing was in terms of the preservation of the American way of life and everything like that and presented as kind of a good mystery story. I appreciated that style of storytelling.
  • clairebear44
    November 17, 2009
    clairebear44
    Really amazing. Frost/Nixon took a lot of notes from this film. Amazing performances from Hoffman and Redford, and really a fantastic movie. You really do have to concentrate though, and it really makes you think. Which is good for our generation, seriously.
  • TomBowler
    November 8, 2009
    TomBowler
    This movie is difficult. You have to really push yourself to actually watch the whole way through, or you are really into the whole 'suspense without anything happening' style. It is a really difficult film to watch without sleeping at least once. But despite that, there is a rea...( read more)son that it is critically acclaimed all around the globe, and that's because it is so perfectly paced the whole way through. Watching it in today's context is difficult. Surrounded by the cheap thrills of crappy action films and childish comedies, it is difficult to appreciate the incredible direction and meaty content matter. But for those of you who are serious about it, you will find a lot to love here. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant, as per the norm, as the gutsy and slightly 'Rain Man' Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford is is great as the idealistic though slightly self-centered Robert Woodward. The fact that this is based on a true story is just one of the reasons that this film works so well. It's all very well imagining an event like this, but for the generation who lived through it and remember it, this becomes much more than the gripping thriller which it is in its own right, it becomes a journey into their own past, which is more convincing than any storyteller. The tense moments which abound are all amazing, shot and paced so delicately and precisely that you can't help to fell frightened. Paying attention to the age old rule of that which you can't see is scarier, Pakula manages to have you on your toes without actually doing anything. The caution that is applied to the circumstances and the cleverness of the script also helps to make this film as good as it is. Great movie.

    Defining Scene:
    It's gotta be the amazing ending with Dustin Hoffman counting slowly to ten down the phone line. That moment of realisation sends tingles down the spine.
  • Phonex
    October 4, 2009
    Phonex
    Another important work of A.Pacula after Sophie's Choice.
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