Frost/Nixon

The postings of my vacation week in DC are finally up here on the bah-log, so now we can get caught up on a favorite activity: movie time! The latest? Frost/Nixon. The film is based on the two-person play with the same two actors. In fact, Frank Langella won a Tony Award for his stage performance of Nixon. Let's see how it translates to the silver screen.

The trailer this time was hard to come by to insert here. A lot of "embedding disabled by request". So here is one via a non-YouTube avenue. Click the nifty play button arrow:


Three years after President Nixon's resignation, he agreed to the landmark 1977 interviews by "entertainer", not journalist, David Frost. Easy pickings for Nixon it was believed. The film, in the grand scheme of things, is just the background, inner workings, and tapings of 4 interview sessions; and it includes all the stress and tension of a cliffhanging suspense thriller. I entered the theater just expecting an embellished docu-drama, but sat there in suspense as these two icons jockey for position and work the jabs for the late round knockout. Frost, clearly out of his league, suffers through the first 3 sessions, giving Nixon the hope that he could exonerate himself, making it "the worst crime of all" after his pardon according to Frost's researchers. But in the 4th, Nixon takes it on the chin and reveals his innermost thoughts and secrets.

Riveting.

A solid Full Price.