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Nixon - The Election Year Edition (2010)

Joan Allen , Julie Araskog , Oliver Stone  |  R |  DVD
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (145 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Joan Allen, Julie Araskog, Brian Bedford, Tony Lo Bianco, Bill Bolender
  • Directors: Oliver Stone
  • Format: AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO
  • DVD Release Date: August 19, 2008
  • Run Time: 213 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (145 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0019QEXYS
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,776 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Nixon - The Election Year Edition" on IMDb

Special Features

  • All-new Beyon Nixon documentary by Sean Stone
  • Deleted scenes
  • Charlie Rose Interviews Oliver Stone featurette
  • 2 audio commentaries
  • Original theatrical trailer

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Oliver Stone's controversial drama about the Nixon years in the White House stars Anthony Hopkins in a genuinely great performance as the scandal-plagued president. The film attempts to wed suggestions of Nixon's formative experiences as a boy to his political connections with shady movers and shakers and finally to his self-destructive tenure in the Oval Office. The Watergate scandal is revisited rather impressionistically--it may be hard for viewers who weren't alive then to get a sense of what the crisis was about. The parade of stars playing figures in Nixon's orbit--J.T. Walsh as John Ehrlichman, James Woods as Bob Haldeman, David Hyde Pierce as John Dean, etc.--is fun if a tad distracting. Joan Allen got a well-deserved Oscar nomination as First Lady Pat Nixon, and Hopkins got one as well. --Tom Keogh

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UPC: 786936747997
DESCRIPTION: From Oscar®-winning* director Oliver Stone and starring Anthony Hopkins in an Oscar® nominated performance, Nixon is the monumental motion picture that delves into the inner sanctum of a tragic world leader, uncovering his greatest moments and his shattering demise! An all-star cast powers this epic look at American President Richard M. Nixon a man carrying both fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands within. From his victorious presidential election to the shocking Watergate scandal that would seal his doom, Nixon was hailed by critics and audiences everywhere as a great film one you don t want to miss!

* Best Director, Born On The Fourth Of July, 1989; Best Director, Platoon, 1986
** Best Actor Nominee, Nixon, 1995
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68 of 75 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing and engrossing November 8, 2004
Format:DVD
When Anthony Hopkins was cast as Richard Nixon in Oliver Stone's bio of the 37th President, many were leery of the casting choice. I myself pictured Hopkins doing a combination of Nixon and Hannibal Lecter: "I'm not a crook -- and if anyone thinks so, I'll eat their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti .... SLURP!!" However, Hopkins does do a marvelous job and disappears into the role without becoming a standup comedian's caricature. Even though Nixon does and says vile things throughout the film, the audience still has sympathy for the character -- even those like me who found the real Richard Nixon dispicable.

Stone portrays Nixon as a tragic figure who had the intelligence and the electoral mandate to elevate himself and his administration to greatness, but let it all slip away by becoming bogged down in the quagmire of Watergate. Nixon complains incessantly about how the Kennedys are everything he is not. However, it becomes clear that his hatred of the Kennedys is based as much on his loathing of himself as on any real scorn shown him by the "Eastern establishment."

Stone, as in JFK, takes certain liberties with Nixon's story and acknowledges as much in a disclaimer before the story begins. Even those who believe President Kennedy was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy, for example, would find it hard to believe that Richard Nixon was involved, even tacitly, in the plot to kill JFK. Stone also takes liberties with his portrayal of Richard and Pat Nixon's marital relationship. Even though some incidents are no doubt true, it's pretty clear that some scenes between the two are conjecture on Stone's part.

However, these are minor quibbles.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The American equivalent of a Greek tragedy July 31, 2001
Format:VHS Tape
What infuriates all those apologists and fanatical supporters of Richard Nixon out there is that Oliver Stone supposedly has an axe to grind about their man by making a film like NIXON. They assumed a lot, but didn't even bother to see the film.

The truth is that NIXON is much more even-handed in its portrayal of the 37th President of the United States than I thought it could be. Anthony Hopkins gives a reasonably fair portrayal of Nixon, and Joan Allen is tremendous as his wife Pat. Although Stone's penchant for conspiracy does get the better of him at times, he sees Nixon as more a tragic victim than as an evil power-monger, a vision that is closer to the truth than what Nixon's enemies made him out to be in reality.

Stone wisely does not gloss over the simple facts about the man. Nixon was indisputably a great and cagey anticommunist politician who managed to split the Sino-Soviet communist alliance in two and thus promote stability in the Cold War world for years to come. But he left a lot to be desired as a human being, being paranoid, distrustful, deceitful, and, in the end, blatantly dishonest. In that sense, the saga of Richard Nixon ranks as the American equivalent of a Greek tragedy: so much explosive potential destroyed by scandal.

As in JFK, Stone has assembled a massive cast of people: Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, J.T. Walsh, and James Woods, just to name a few. Despite its few faults, NIXON is a fair portrait of perhaps the most frustrating and complicated man ever to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars "This is god-damned Disneyland...." December 25, 1999
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Format:DVD
Oliver Stone's fascinating insight into the Nixon administration is not for everyone's delight. The closest thing to a "JFK" sequal, 'Nixon' rolls all the players into a ball of naughtiness & takes it from there. Hard to keep up with if un-familiar with the facts surrounding the 'watergate-scandal', but if you know your homework it's alot of fun. Superb casting,I must say, Stone started this epic right after "Natural Born Killers" so it has all the internal flare of film-making. Immense enjoyment on DVD, this film IS very under-rated,losing 'Best Picture' oscar to Mel Gibson's "Braveheart"... you can see how not everybody wants this film around in the long-run. Thumbs up!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Oliver Stone's Richard the Third November 29, 2004
Format:DVD
Oliver Stone's "Nixon" isn't really the cinematic biography of American Commander-in-Chief and Paranoid Extraordinaire Richard M. Nixon, but more like a latter day "Richard III". Stone need only have given the ogrish Nixon (played fascinating and disturbingly by the gifted Anthony Hopkins) a hunchback and had him kill a few kids in the Tower of London to have completed the deal.

I am a big Nixon fan, if only for his strangeness, for his political eccentricity in a political system where only the bland, the smiling, the sound-biteable, the contempibly predictable is rewarded. Nixon, to me, has always seemed like an anachronistic creation of pure will, a force of random Brownian motion, a misunderstood Machiavellian demon, hopelessly paranoid, unmistakably brilliant, brutally deformed, unequivocally human, a misshapen creature.

Stone turns that on its head, and suggests that at worst Nixon may just have been naive. Driven, yes. Ambitious, yes. Duplicitous, only when it suited him. But naive. And that, truly, is the fascination with this lavish little probe into the mind and madness that was Richard Nixon, and the insanity that was the America he helmed. Oliver Stone's "Nixon" is flawed, oddly talky, features an impossibly gorgeous Joan Allen as the impossibly dowdy Pat Nixon. But with all that against it, it is compulsive. It is fascinating. It kept me up all night, for all 212 of its minutes (get the Director's cut). Can more be said?

Perhaps. Stone, who helmed "Natural Born Killers" and "Wall Street" and "JFK", is incapable of making a bad moviek, and "Nixon" is no exception.
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3.0 out of 5 stars TOO MANY LIBERTIES TAKEN TO PRODUCE A SELLABLE MOVIE
Although Anthony Hopkins is a fantastic actor, his portrayal of Nixon was difficult to watch. Having watched Nixon throughout the 60's, 70's, and into his "retirement" he... Read more
Published 6 days ago by S. GRAY
4.0 out of 5 stars Quality of DVD very good.
Quality of DVD very good. No problems with viewing DVD. Excellent Oliver Stone directed movie. I very good deal for the price.
Published 20 days ago by steven j. sparks
5.0 out of 5 stars A tremendous portrayl of a complicated man
Outstanding portrait of an important, complicated man during an important part of our country's political history. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Stephen M Mahoney
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Published 2 months ago by LEE YOUNG
4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Drama
I must say that Anthony Hopkins does a great job portraying Nixon in this film. It is a really good Drama and sticks close to the facts about Richard Nixon. Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Waller
1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't work bad DVD
First time ever got a bad DVD and we have ordered dozens from amazon. Cost more to return then cost of DVD so we are at a loss on this one.
Published 5 months ago by Nancy Galli
5.0 out of 5 stars Nixon review
Everything was as advertised. I watched it and it was perfect. It was sent very quickly and was adequately protected.
Published 5 months ago by Mike M.
5.0 out of 5 stars another STONE classic
one of the best bio films of all time ranks up there with Citizen Kane! Nixons showdown with Richard Helms at the CIA is required viewing alone!!
Published 6 months ago by Daniel Fouts
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome movie!
Great movie about a great man. Oliver Stone nailed this one, just like he nailed JFK. I was very entertained.
Published 6 months ago by Michael Crutchfield
5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Modern Tragedy
This is an amazing film, not because you will feel vindicated in one way or another for your admiration or loathing of Richard Nixon, but that you will empathize with Oliver... Read more
Published 6 months ago by RHW
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