IMDB: 7.1 January 5, 1996 192 min Biography, Drama, History UK Oliver Stone Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins
Nixon: Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the nineteen sixty presidential election...
