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DVD : Nixon [Blu-ray]In association with Amazon.comstarring: Joan Allen, Julie Araskog, Brian Bedford, Tony Lo Bianco, Bill Bolender directed by: Oliver Stone ![: Nixon [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JX9CZsWxL._SL160_.jpg) List Price: $34.99 Amazon.com's Price: $23.99 You Save: $11.00 (31%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: Blu-ray EAN: 0786936747935 Format: AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: WALT DISNEY VIDEO Manufacturer: WALT DISNEY VIDEO Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: WALT DISNEY VIDEO Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 19, 2008 Running Time: 213 minutes Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO Theatrical Release Date: 1995 Sales Rank: 15155 MPN: DISBR55753 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: UPC:786936747935 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 END Amazon.com essential video: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - A more personal, wiley and stylistic edition of JFKAs a filmmaker I appreciate Oliver Stone, his provactive, political, conspiratorial, curious, enigmatic, ominous visions of Americana are the stuff of high entertainment. Right or wrong, his works are wonderful cinema, it doesn't matter if his version is slanted to the left, it is a distinct vision and he is skilled at executing it. Be that as it may Nixon is no JFK. Though both are named for presidents of the same era, one is about a murder and it's associate conspiracies-presented in staggering ... Read More Rating:  - Hopkins as NixonShould you not appreciate the representation of what might be your favorite President, you should be impressed with the performance of the wonderful Anthony Hopkins! Bravo. Rating:  - I am not a crookNixon was denounced by Nixon's daughters and the Disney family as an unfair portrayal of the only United States President ever to resign from office, but after watching the three plus hour epic, you are left feeling somewhat sympathetic to the man, and you have to give Nixon credit for his many accomplishments. Oliver Stone dedicated this film, and also Wall Street, to his father, Louis, a stock trader. Perhaps Oliver's father admired Nixon, so Stone wanted to give him his due. Oliver Stone always does ... Read More Rating: - Nixon -- masterpiece of brilliant, flawed PresidentOliver Stone's Nixon was among the finest films of the nineties, and also among the most under appreciated. Anthony Hopkins cuts through the mystery of this complex man and captures his conflicted and wounded soul in a performance that earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor, and stands among his finest work. Both Stone and his actor are not interested in attacking Nixon, but rtather exploring his life for all its complexities and contradictions, and studying how a man could achieve so much and yet ... Read More Rating: - Nixon "The Election Year Edition"--finally it is Anamorphic Widescreen! Excellent transfer to DVDAmazon needs to change its movie review process. This is actually a review of the "Election Year Edition" that was released in 2008. I tried to enter a new review under that DVD release (after typing the entire thing, I was told that it was not allowed--only one review per item (I originally wrote a review of the "Collector's Edition"--but there is now a different item/version--why can't I write another review about that version?! How absurd!)). Anyway, the original release of "Nixon" was letterboxed ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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