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Details the actions of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who takes it upon himself to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Garrison is extrem...( read more  read more... )ely suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI, and what he already knows and what he subsequently learns lead him to suspect that there is more to the story than the public is being told.

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R, 3 hr. 8 min.

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Release Date: December 20, 1991

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DVD Release Date: August 27, 1997

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  • 76Majikat
    December 4, 2009
    76Majikat
    My first viewing of this film and from others I am led to believe that even the details of the film are incorrect and almost a conspiracy in itself??

    As possibly one of the biggest conspiracy theories in history, the film is big in terms of it?s star cast, it?s investigation,...( read more) the content and script with some dialogue running for a fair while without breaking scenes, (in particular the scene with Donald Sutherland).

    Good performances all around and made for intriguing viewing.
  • SirPant
    September 17, 2009
    SirPant
    The only real problem with making a film about JFK's assassination and the conspiracies involved is that there isn't a conclusion. Everything learnt in this film has at some point since its release been denied as fiction, or has no evidence. So as interesting as it was, and as br...( read more)illiant the all star cast were, I just couldn't enjoy this film as much as I?d hoped.
  • MovieGeek13
    August 25, 2009
    MovieGeek13
    Nobody makes films like Oliver Stone. JFK challenges you, disturbs you, and dares you to question everything the political body does. This is the best film of the 90s.
  • mrpopcorn
    April 15, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "The Story That Won't Go Away"

    A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

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    The assassination of JFK has been told in every possible way throug...( read more)h every available medium. Oliver Stone managed the unimaginable transforming and almost folk tragedy, through a mix of drama and cinema veritč, into a riveting mystery thriller with the paranoiac style of a man who's in touch with paranoia in a quasi permanent basis. Unnerving, frustrating and spectacularly satisfying. Kevin Costner manages to be convincing as the center piece of the conspiracy theory. We believe the whole damn thing because we see it through his logic. Sissy Spacek, as his wife, represents most us and she does it brilliantly. Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Bacon are a pleasure to watch. Donald Sutherland, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and even John Candy, Sally Kirkland and Vincent D'Onofrio deliver little parts of the puzzle without ever becoming distracting. Gary Oldman is a chilling dead ringer for Lee Harvey Oswald. For film lovers, for history nuts, for pop culture fanatics and for conspiracy theorists, this is a must.
  • EarthlyAlien
    March 23, 2009
    EarthlyAlien
    "People got to know, why he was killed."

    Let's get one thing clear right from the start: Oliver Stone makes agitprop - not film dramas, not documentaries. He makes heartfelt, heart stirring, heart pumping treatises which, if they don't always seem to have pointed objectiv...( read more)es, do always seem to have bottom lines. So, too, with JFK. Here the bottom line is the demolition of the "lone gunman" assassination theory. On that score, Stone does a bang-up job. In fact, some of JFK's most riveting moments involve recreations of both the "magic" bullet's path and the shooter's vantage point.

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    Stone makes it virtually impossible to finish watching the film convinced, beyond all shadow of doubt, of the lone gunman theory. Or, at least, he sets the stage for a good argument. And that's where JFK's real power lies - in stirring the debate, that debate Americans love. Stone has always had a penchant for big, American subjects (Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street, The Doors, Platoon) and there's no bigger subject, no more gigantic fester than the still-in-question assassination of President Kennedy. Further, if Stone is able to convince us that there was more than one gunman, then, by definition, that proves that there was a conspiracy. This, however, is where Stone gets fuzzy.

    JFK doesn't advance any information or evidence that hasn't already been available (though perhaps not widely) for public scrutiny. It certainly doesn't name names. In some respects, JFK is preaching to the converted and has little to add to their knowledge. For others, its visual recreations will open up doors of possibility. This is where the Capraesque elements of JFK come in handy. Costner is an ideal James Stewart or Gary Cooper Everyman, square-jawed and driven by truth, lending a halo to DA Jim Garrison that doesn't exist in his real-life counterpart. This film-Garrison gets to speechify, wax grandly about American values and even commit the sin of neglecting his family, all for the greater good of the pursuit of justice.

    It all may be a little much, but it could be just the thing to draw in the agnostics. The other element that makes this film work are the performances, virtually all of which are good and a few of which are incredible. Include in the latter category Kevin Bacon's gay hustler (the performance of his life), Joe Pesci's volatile co-conspirator (usual greatness) and Walter Matthau's brief appearance as Sen. Russell Long. The outstanding calibre of the acting by a whole slew of actors and actresses is one of the hallmarks of this film.

    With over three hours of running length (my sister fell asleep at least twice), JFK certainly has to have something human and recognizable to hang its barrage of information on. And though it does barrage, it never really harangues. JFK is a good film, though not great art or drama. It nevertheless possesses greatness if it accomplishes nothing more than jump-starting a full inquiry into the famous national secret.
  • maxmoser3
    February 9, 2010
    maxmoser3
    JFK is a great biography about the assination of president john f. kennedy a U.S president back in the 60's until one day at a parade he was assinated by a whole crowd back in 1963
  • theaisleseat
    January 16, 2010
    theaisleseat
    An eye-opener that made me re-examine what I'd learned in school.
  • FilmFanatik
    January 15, 2010
    FilmFanatik
    Oliver Stone makes you question things. He's pretty good at that. This is a terrific film and worth several viewings.
  • zanarkandguardian
    January 15, 2010
    zanarkandguardian
    Goddamn it, Oliver Stone! Haven't you ever heard of a 2 hour movie?
  • EbertsLittleApprentice
    January 13, 2010
    EbertsLittleApprentice
    A film that is as intriguing as the JFK assassanation itself.

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  • GeorgeBailey88
    November 23, 2008
    GeorgeBailey88
    November 22, 1963: The Day the Federal Reserve and International Bankers won. JFK tried to repeal the Federal Reserve Act which would've turned the power of coining money over to the U.S. Government and the Fed wasn't going to have it.

    JFK was murdered: orchestrated by the bankers. executed by the CIA.
  • rifkirocks
    August 11, 2006
    rifkirocks
    What a movie!! depressing!! touchy!! one hell of a movie 3 hours and 12 mins of QUALITY time!!
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