The Assassination of Richard Nixon

(2004)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 313 votes

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller, Crime

Year: 2004

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: United States of America, Australia

Director: Niels Mueller

Cast: Шон Пенн, Дон Чидл, Джек Томпсон, Майкелти Уильямсон, Майкл Уинкотт, Наоми Уоттс, Nick Searcy, Брэд Уильям Хэнке, Трэйси Миддендорф, Лили Найт

Plot

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.

Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother's old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon's broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.