Today’s movie is a biographical drama with a scene that
happens on February 22. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON
Samuel Bicke’s
life is falling apart. His wife has left him and he has stopped working for his
brother. He’s a hypocrite, demanding honesty of others, yet often telling lies
himself. He lies about his marital staus to get his new job as a salesman. His
boss thinks President Nixon is the greatest salesman ever due his political
duplicity about the Vietnam War. Bicke decides to set up a mobile tire sale
business with a government loan. His wife files for divoce, and after his boss
learns Bicke lied on his job application, Bicke quits. He breaks into his brother’s tire sale
business and arranges for a large tire order to be sent to his friend Bonny, to
be paid for with the loan proceeds. However, the loan doesn’t come through and
Bonny is arrested for receiving stolen goods.Bicke’s bother bails out Bonny,
but severs all ties with Bicke. Bicke steals a gun from Bonny,but can’t kill his
old boss. Bicke does kill his dog. On February 22, 1974 [2:01 to 3:04 and
1:19:11 to 1:30:05] Bicke tries to hijack an airliner to crash into the White
House. He kills a pilot, but as the police close in he commits suicide. Nixion
was not at the White House that day in any event.
Washington Post
(Saturday, February 23, 1974) at pages 1 and 10 and the film at 2:50 give the
date
Director - Niels Mueller
Producer - Alfonso Cuarón and Jorge Vergara
Screenplay - Niels Mueller and Kevin Kennedy
Released – December 29, 2004
Runtime – 1 hour 35 minutes
Starring –
Sean Penn as Samuel Bicke
Don Cheadle as Bonny Simmons
Jack Thompson as Jack Jones
Naomi Watts as Marie Bicke
Brad William Henke as Martin Jones
Michael Wincott as Julius Bicke
Mykelti Williamson as Harold Mann
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
No comments:
Post a Comment