Assassination of Richard Nixon, The

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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) 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..

actors:

Sean Penn	as Samuel J. Bicke
Naomi Watts	as Marie Andersen Bicke
Don Cheadle	as Bonny Simmons
Jack Thompson	as Jack Jones
Brad William Henke	as Martin Jones
Nick Searcy	as Tom Ford
Michael Wincott	as Julius Bicke
Mykelti Williamson	as Harold Mann
April Grace	as Mae Simmons
Lily Knight	as Receptionist
Jared Dorrance	as Sammy Jr.
Jenna Milton	as Ellen
Mariah Massa	as Julie
Eileen Ryan	as Marie's Mother
Derek Greene	as Joey Simmons

directors:
Niels Mueller
rating:7.20

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