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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PENN,SEAN
EAN: 9780780650473
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780650476
Label: New Line Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
MPN: TRNDN7850D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Based on true events, a troubled man blames President Nixon for his and society's troubles, and resolves to kill him.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 27-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Sean Penn (looking rather Rupert Pupkin-like) is Samuel Bicke, whose life, circa 1974, has become unbearable. His wife (Naomi Watts) has left him, his dead-end sales job is killing him--even his best friend (Don Cheadle) has had enough. Bicke's a loser, but at least he's an honest one. Nixon, the epitome of dishonesty, becomes the locus of his rage, so Bicke devises a plan to eliminate him. Paul Schrader claims he finished writing Taxi Driver before the real-life Byck attempted to assassinate the president. Maybe so, but the similarities are hard to ignore (and "Bickle" sounds a lot like "Byck"). Niels Mueller (Tadpole) doesn't disguise the fact that his debut was inspired by the guy. If The Assassination of Richard Nixon doesn't hit Taxi Driver's (admittedly lofty) heights, it's still a discomfiting look at a man determined to leave his mark on the world, only to become a footnote. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The movie is an intense focus on Sean Penn doing a sympathetic character study of a nut job named Samuel J. Bicke, a failed salesman who manages to lose at everything he does. He is a salesman who believes you shouldn't lie to make a sale. The only thing more ridiculous would be a lawyer who believes you shouldn't lie to win a case. I had a friend once who was a bit of a nut job like Bicke who said he never lied. To maintain this fiction he lied to himself. It was the only way he could continue ... Read More
Rating:  -
Sam Bicke is a failure. His marriage, job, business idea and relationships have left an initially pathetic man quite bitter. This movie is not about Nixon, his presidency or politics. It is about what leads people to take matters into their own hands.
The ending offers no surprise. We know the Nixon presidency ended in resignation, not assassination. Director Niels Mueller leaves us precious little to hang onto as the film meanders for 90 minutes. Sean Penn is solid as the would-be lone ... Read More
Rating: -
I picked up a cheap used version of The Assassination Of Richard Nixon simply because I spent much of my youth listening to my dad yell at the 37th President during the years of the Watergate scandal, and figured that there might be some posthumous vicarious thrill that he could glean from my watching such a film with such a title. To my surprise, the film was not a cheesy exploitative film, but a latter day attempt to reframe some of the very same issues that Martin Scorsese's Travis Bickle dealt with ... Read More
Rating: -
Imagine Neils Muller's directorial debut with Sean Penn as his lead actor! Also the co-scriptwriter, Muller must have had Penn in mind from the inception to recreate the deteriorating life of real-life Samuel Bycke, who in 1974 tried to hijack an airplane for the sole purpose of crashing into the White House and killing Richard Nixon.
Why? Therein lies the story. Bicke is one of those pathetic individuals who cannot succeed because of a personality disorder. That pathos eventually morphs into ... Read More
Rating: -
"The Assassination of Richard Nixon" is one of the more impacting films I've seen in recent years, but if you're not an admirer of psychological drama it's best to stay far, far away.
The tragic tale of Samuel Byck is deeply entwined with the anguish and outrage of the late 1960's and the still tense era of the early 1970's. An unemployed tire salesman who suffered from deep depression and could not succeed in any area of his life, he turned his sights on the powers that be, who were as hateable ... Read More
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