Nixon (film)
Nixon is a 1995 film directed by Oliver Stone for Cinergi Pictures that tells the story of the political and personal life of former President Richard Nixon (Anthony Hopkins). The film portrays Nixon as a complex and, in many respects, an admirable person, though deeply flawed. Unlike Stone's earlier film JFK, Nixon begins with a disclaimer that the film is "an attempt to understand the truth based on numerous public sources and on an incomplete historical record." The studio did not like Stone's choice to play Nixon — Hopkins. They wanted Tom Hanks or Jack Nicholson two of Stone's original choices. The director briefly considered Gene Hackman, Robin Williams and Tommy Lee Jones. Stone met with Warren Beatty but the actor wanted to make too many changes to the script. Stone cast Hopkins based on his performances in The Remains of the Day and Shadowlands.
Two days before the film was released
in theaters, the Nixon family issued a statement criticizing Stone's depiction
of Nixon's private life, that of his childhood, and his part in planning the assassination
of Fidel Castro. Some critics took Stone to task for portraying Nixon as an alcoholic
but this information came from books by Stephen Ambrose, Fawn Brodie and Tom Wicker.
Roger Ebert, a film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film and placed
it on his list of the top ten films of the year. The film grossed a total of $13
million in North America, well below its $44 million budget.
Cast
Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon
Joan Allen - Pat Nixon
Powers Boothe - Alexander Haig
Ed Harris - E. Howard Hunt
Bob Hoskins - J. Edgar Hoover
E.G. Marshall - John Mitchell
David Paymer - Ron Ziegler
David Hyde Pierce - John Dean
Paul Sorvino - Henry Kissinger
Mary Steenburgen - Hannah Nixon
J.T. Walsh - John Ehrlichman
James Woods - H.R. Haldeman
Brian Bedford - Clyde Tolson
Kevin Dunn
- Charles Colson
Fyvush Finkel - Murray Chotiner
Annabeth Gish - Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Tom Bower - Frank Nixon
Tony Goldwyn - Harold Nixon
Larry Hagman - 'Jack Jones'
Edward Herrmann - Nelson Rockefeller
(as Ed Herrmann)
Madeline Kahn - Martha Mitchell
Dan Hedaya - Trini Cardoza
Tony Lo Bianco - Johnny Roselli
Tony Plana - Manolo Sanchez
Saul Rubinek - Herb Klein
Robert Beltran - Frank Sturgis, Watergate Burglar
John Cunningham -
Bob
John Diehl - Gordon Liddy
John C. McGinley - Earl in Training Film
Michael Chiklis - TV Director
David Barry Gray - Richard Nixon, 19 Years Old
Joanna Going - Young Student
George Plimpton - President's
Lawyer
Lenny Vullo - Bernard Barker, Watergate Burglar
Corey Carrier - Richard Nixon, 12 Years Old
Ronald von Klaussen - James McCord,
Watergate Burglar
John Bedford Lloyd - Cuban Man
Kamar De Los Reyes - Eugenio Martinez, Watergate Burglar
Enrique
Castillo - Virgilio Gonzales, Watergate Burglar
James Pickens Jr-. Black
Orator (as James Pickens)
Victor Rivers - Cuban Plumber
Bridgette Wilson - Sandy (as Bridgitte Wilson)
Drew
Snyder - Moderator
Ric Young - Mao Tse-Tung
Sean Stone - Donald Nixon
Joshua Preston - Arthur Nixon
Ian Calip - Football Player
Jack
Wallace - Football Coach
Julie Condra - Young Pat Nixon (as Julie Condra
Douglas)
Annette Helde - Happy Rockefeller
Howard
Platt - Lawyer at Party
Mike Kennedy - Convention Announcer
Harry Murphy
- Fan #1
Suzanne Schnulle Murphy - Fan #2
Michael Kaufman - Fan #3
Pamela Dickerson - Girlfriend
O'Neal Compton - Texas Man
Chris Renna - Family Doctor (as Dr. Christian Renna)
Wilson Cruz - Joaquin, Hoover's Servant
Mikey Stone - Edward Nixon
Robert
Marshall - Spiro Agnew
Marley Shelton - Tricia Nixon Cox
James Karen - Bill Rogers
Richard
Fancy - Mel Laird
Peter Carlin - Student #1
Michelle Krusiec - Student #2
Wass Stevens - Protester
Tom
Nicoletti - Secret Service Agent #1
Chuck Pfeiffer - Secret Service Agent
#2
Alexander Butterfield - White House Staffer (also archive footage) (as
Alex Butterfield)
Mark Steines - White House Security
Ling Bai - Chinese Interpreter
Peter P. Starson Jr-. Air Force One Steward
Jon Tenney - Reporter #1
Julie Araskog - Reporter
#2
Ray Wills - Reporter #3
John Bellucci - Reporter #4
Zoey Zimmerman
- Reporter #5
Mary Rudolph - Rosemary Woods
Clayton Townsend - Floor
Manager #1
Donna Dixon - Maureen Dean
John Stockwell - Staffer #1
Charles Haugk - Staffer #2
Boris Sichkin - Leonid Brezhnev
Fima Noveck
- Andre Gromyko
Raissa Danilova - Russian Interpreter
Marilyn Rockafellow - Helen Smith
Bill Bolender - Bethesda Doctor
Melinda Renna - Bethesda Nurse
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dean
Acheson - Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Salvador Allende - Himself
- with Mother and Infant (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Bork - Himself
- at Time of Saturday Night Massacre (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arthur
Bremer - Himself - Shooting Wallace (archive footage) (uncredited)
David
Brinkley - Himself - Reporting FBI Findings on Dean and Hunt (voice) (uncredited)
(archive footage)
Edmund G. Brown - Himself - Running against Nixon / Meeting
with JFK (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barbara Bush - Herself - Attending
Nixon Funeral (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Bush - Himself - Attending
Nixon Funeral (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jimmy Carter - Himself - Attending
Nixon Funeral (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rosalynn Carter - Herself -
Attending Nixon Funeral (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fidel Castro - Himself
- Smoking Cigar (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bill Clinton
- Himself - Eulogizing Nixon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hillary Rodham
Clinton - Herself - Attending Nixon Funeral (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nellie Connally - Herself - Leaving Air Force One after JFK (archive footage)
(uncredited)
Archibald Cox - Himself - with Elliott Richardson (archive footage)
(uncredited)
Edward Cox - Himself - at Helicopter after Resignation (archive
footage) (uncredited)
Nancy Davis - Herself - Attending
Nixon Funeral (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bob Dole - Himself - Eulogizing
Nixon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Himself - Returning from WW2 / Throwing Out First Ball / Handshake with JFK
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Mamie Eisenhower - Herself - with Ike at Republican
Convention (archive footage) (uncredited)
Daniel Ellsberg - Himself - Discussing
Prison Sentence (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sam Ervin - Himself - at Senate
Watergate Hearing (archive footage) (uncredited)
Betty Ford - Herself - when
Gerald Becomes President after Nixon Resignation / Attending Nixon Funeral (archive
footage) (uncredited)
Gerald Ford - Himself - Sworn in as President after
Nixon Resignation / Attending Nixon Funeral (archive footage) (uncredited)
Helen Gahagan - Herself (runs against Nixon) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Helms - Himself - Leaning Forward to Testify (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alger Hiss - Himself - Testifying before HUAC (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lyndon Johnson - Himself - in First Speech as President / Attending JFK Funeral
/ Declining Renomination (archive footage) (uncredited)
Caroline Kennedy
- Herself - Arriving for JFK Funeral with LBJ (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ethel Kennedy - Herself - behind RFK during Final Speech (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jacqueline Kennedy - Herself - with Jack in Dallas / Arriving for JFK Funeral
(archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy - Himself
- Campaigning / Debating Nixon / Beginning Visit to Dallas (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Kennedy Jr-. Himself - Arriving for JFK Funeral with LBJ (archive footage)
(uncredited)
Robert F. Kennedy - Himself - in Final Speech / Attending JFK
Funeral / Laying Mortally Wounded (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eunice Kennedy
Shriver - Herself - Arriving for JFK Funeral with Ted (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ted Kennedy - Himself - Wearing Neck Brace after Chappaquiddick (archive
footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev - Himself - Wearing White Hat (archive
footage) (uncredited)
King George VI - Himself - with Truman (archive footage)
(uncredited)
Martin Luther King - Himself (archive footage)
(uncredited)
Albert Leon - Ringmaster (uncredited)
Dave Mallow - Newscaster
Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Tse-tung Mao - Himself - in the 1940s (archive
footage) (uncredited)
Joseph McCarthy - Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George McGovern - Himself - Facing the Press (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert McNamara - Himself - Laughing (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nicole Nagel - Kissinger's Date (uncredited)
Pat Nixon - Herself - Leaving
White House after Resignation (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon
- Himself - Leaving White House after Resignation (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tricia Nixon - Herself - at Helicopter after Resignation (archive footage)
(uncredited)
J. Robert Oppenheimer - Himself - Smoking Cigarette (archive
footage) (uncredited)
Lee Harvey Oswald - Himself - in Custody (archive footage)
(uncredited)
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi - Himself - Handshake with Diplomat
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Pasby - News Reporter at Press Conference
(uncredited)
Ronald Reagan - Himself - in Pro-Nixon Speech
/ Attending Nixon Funeral (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elliot Richardson
- Himself - with Archibald Cox (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eleanor Roosevelt
- Herself - Wearing Fur Coat (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt - Himself - with Socialite (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ethel
Rosenberg - Herself - Handcuffed with Husband (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julius Rosenberg - Himself - Handcuffed with Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Ruckelshaus - Himself - at Time of Saturday Night Massacre (archive
footage) (uncredited)
Adlai Stevenson - Himself - Facing Microphones (archive
footage) (uncredited)
Oliver Stone - Closing Narration (voice) (uncredited)
Robert Taylor - Himself - Testifying
before HUAC (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry S. Truman - Himself - with
King George (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Wallace - Himself - Shot
by Bremer / in Wheelchair (archive footage) (uncredited)
Earl Warren - Himself
- Swearing in JFK (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breck
Wilson - Hippie (uncredited)
Plot
The film covers
all aspects of Nixon's life as a pastiche and composite of actual events. It depicts
his childhood in Whittier, California, as well as his growth as a young man, football
fan and player, and suitor to his eventual wife, Pat Ryan. It fully explores most
of the important events of his presidency, including his downfall due to abuse
of executive power in the White House.
Nixon's alcohol dependence, as well as that of his wife, is fully implied in the film, as is the medication addiction he faced during his remaining years in office (Nixon's health problems, including his bout of phlebitis and pneumonia during the Watergate crisis, are also shown in the film, and his various medicaments are sometimes attributed to these health issues).
The film ends with Nixon's resignation and famous departure from
the lawn of the White House on the helicopter, Army One. Real life footage of
Nixon's state funeral in Yorba Linda, California, plays out over the extended
end credits, and all living presidents at the time, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter,
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, are shown in attendance
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