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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically intimate political dramas about alienation, humiliation, and the dangerous need to turn private failure into public revenge.
- Tone
- bleak, melancholic, tense
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- disillusionment, economic precarity, political corruption, masculinity, mental breakdown
- Setting
- 1970s America, struggling suburbs and an international airport