Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews
Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews

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Originally broadcast in May of 1977, this series of interviews between Sir David Frost and U.S. President Richard Nixon, delves into the various controversies of Nixon's presidency, including (most famously) the Watergate scandal. Never before, nor since, has a U.S. President been so candid on camera. This historic meeting has been adapted into an award-winning major motion picture by Ron Howard.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews:

David Frost
Richard Nixon

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Originally broadcast in May of 1977, this series of interviews between Sir David Frost and U.S. President Richard Nixon, delves into the various controversies of Nixon's presidency, including (most famously) the Watergate scandal. Never before, nor since, has a U.S. President been so candid on camera. This historic meeting has been adapted into an award-winning major motion picture by Ron Howard.

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Cinenganos - 8/10 by Luis MartinezLa cinta es un brillante tour de force donde, a pesar de no haber un gramo de acción, la tensión se respira en cada escena; y es que el argumento, inspirado en la entrevista de David Frost a Richard Nixon es tan estresante como la vida misma.
User Review - 10/10 by Aruni NThank God for David Frost and his ability to document one of the most moving moments in modern American history. How many people hated Nixon? Karma truly is a bitch.
User Review - 10/10 by Alex rSaw a movie, it seems, about the famous interview, yesterday. Apparently, President Nixon praised the Italian crafted shoes of Frost, not his double breasted jacket, very aptly tailored, comprising a suit, of an exquisite color, in the movie. The tie was also prominent, but it didn't somehow suggest the Marylebone Cricket Club, neither a school tie, nor the Cambridge University, to me either. Really nice movie, and I thought that Nixon was perhaps the most politically correct politician, and he respected that he was presiding over the U. S. administration as the figurehead. He went to China, not on his own calling. It appears, that he was just like the immediately former President Bush, and he was so interested in the political process, that he engaged with the Chinese govt., not knowing perhaps, how relevant China was, before he himself became President. I don't know, whether China was to Presidents before Nixon, what India and Pakistan were to President Bush, after he became President of the United States. The movie suggests, that Nixon had a high regard for Frost, and he spoke to him as if he was empathizing with himself, in a warm, self appreciating manner. Frost appeared to take favor of the situation, appropriately. It seems, President Nixon was seated opposite to the Chinese First lady, and Mrs. Nixon was also facing the Chinese Chairman, during public occasions in China, and it was the most sombre occasion, when the seating arrangement occurred. Apparently, also, it wasn't sombre in exchange, but how the President felt, seated opposite the wife of the Chairman, and he could appreciate the humor in that instance, later, in the west, long after his presidency.
User Review - 10/10 by Jason SAn overdue historical document that offers a much more fascinating glimpse into Richard M. Nixon than the generic Hollywood adaptation. While the Hollywood adaptation shows an unprepared and overwhelmed David Frost, the Complete Interviews truthfully reveal a highly prepared Frost unafraid and unwilling to back down from a veteran statesman. This documentary provides a great deal of insight into over 28 hours of footage and portrays far more accuracy than the movie adaptation.
User Review - 8/10 by Edith NProof That David Frost Wasn't So Much With the Hard-Hitting I have to admit that I didn't even know these interviews existed until about the time the movie came out. Nixon is not so much my thing, and most of what I know about his presidency comes from old [i]Doonesbury[/i] strips. However, when the DVD of these interviews was released, David Frost himself went on [i]The Daily Show[/i] to talk about it. I think Jon Stewart may well even have thought more of them than Frost did himself. However, I have read two schools of thought on the subject of them. The first is that David Frost asked the Tough Questions and got Nixon to say things he never would have in any other circumstances. The latter of which is true; Nixon was interviewed by anyone, after all, and we never would have heard him say those things had he not been. The other school of thought is that David Frost didn't really know what he was doing, and Nixon talked circles around him. Having watched the interviews for myself, this is the school to which I now subscribe. The circumstances of this are so well known that I don't really need to go into them here. Let us merely say that David Frost offered Richard Nixon a great deal of money to sit down with him and be interviewed. There were two caveats; Richard Nixon would indeed talk about Watergate, and David Frost would mostly ask him about other things. The details of this may be examined in greater detail by watching [i]Frost/Nixon[/i], the fictionalization of the events, though of course I cannot say how historically accurate that movie was. However, the practical outcome is that the two men sat down together (in a house clearly under a flight path) and discussed all manner of events from the Nixon presidency. Not just Watergate, as established. Nixon's beginning of the normalization of relations with China. The Vietnam War. Some to do with Nixon the man, mostly to do with Nixon the President. Two men sitting quietly in a room, which is the reason one of my friends couldn't understand why I'd bother seeing the movie in the theatre. Two men sitting quietly in a room, yes, but sitting quietly in a room talking about world-changing events. The thing is, though, the questions Nixon answered were not reliably the questions Frost asked. Frost seemed unable to take any control whatsoever of the circumstances. In the later parts of the interview, which the movie has told me were conducted days later than the first of it, he is more able to interrupt to try to get Nixon back on topic. It doesn't reliably work, but he is able to try, at least. David Frost was more familiar with puff pieces. He would tell these lengthy stories which, while sometimes interesting at least, were only tangentially related to the question. It is generally considered that Nixon really won the Kennedy debates; the reason Americans thought otherwise is that the watched them on television, and Kennedy understood television in a way Nixon did not. It is clear, watching this, that Nixon learned his lesson in the nearly two decades since. He had also been fencing with the public over the three years directly preceding these interviews to avoid giving away things he didn't want to. The fifth and final segment also shows Nixon telling a story about Martha Mitchell which almost seems to be sacrificing her tragedy for his benefit. And here's the thing I really wanted Frost to pick up--he said, at one point, that he didn't fire a few people who were involved in the burglary and cover-up because they were only suspected, and it would be inappropriate to fire them without real proof. And this infuriated me. Nixon had been involved with McCarthy and the Committee, after all, which was pretty much all about throwing mud until some of it stuck. Even if people weren't shown to have done anything wrong, the very fact of associations they might not have had anything to do with in decades was considered enough to destroy their lives. This contrasted with evidence of actual treason is errant hypocrisy. I admit that Frost, born in Kent, probably had little information about Nixon's role in the Committee, but it still really bothered me. Surely it's the sort of thing he should have gotten as part of his preparation for the interviews. If he didn't, it was irresponsible of him. If he did, it is yet more evidence that Nixon was talking rings around him. If Nixon thought these interviews would salvage his reputation, he was wrong. To this day, he's generally considered a watchword for governmental corruption. No, we don't much talk about Spiro Agnew anymore; Nixon tries to rehabilitate him, too. (In his disbarment, he was declared "morally obtuse.") It does actually come across that he knows more than he is willing to say and lies about what he will talk about. His appeals to logic--pointing out that perjury after the pardon wouldn't be covered by the pardon--come across more as equivocations. The equivalent of Jon Lovitz's "Yeah, that's the ticket!" from [i]Saturday Night Live[/i] some ten or fifteen years after these interviews. In a way, it almost feels as though Nixon is insulting our intelligence. His claims, a lot of them, are so ludicrous that we would ourselves have to be pretty stupid to believe them. It's clear that David Frost doesn't any more than we do, but Nixon pulls the "Will you just let me finish?" gimmick intended to make the audience pity the poor person being harangued by the interviewer. It doesn't often work, and this is no exception.
User Review - 8/10 by Carmen CI finally got around to watching this (it has been sitting on my DVD shelf for a long time). I was fascinated with it... I have memories of Watergate being on TV all the time when I was a kid but didn't know anything at all about this interview.
User Review - 8/10 by Drew HNice to finally see them, but as they happen before I was born, I didn't know who half the names of the people involved, or what their involvement was.
User Review - 8/10 by Oscar GGood for hardcore Nixon enthusiasts, but the Langella / Sheen movie condenses this amazingly well, with important insights rendering this somewhat redundant. The real hardcore can find all 9 hours of footage on special edition DVD, whereas this features on the fourth interview session, which focused on Watergate and by-passes Nixon's role as peace-maker with China and Russia.
User Review - 8/10 by Benny HGreat film that builds the drama up nicely.
User Review - 8/10 by Deedee WWow I'm the 1st who review this movie in Flixster.What a fun interesting issue to watch. The guy who played Nixon is really good. The ending is very exciting and it made me understand all the history of Nixon more. Good film indeed.

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