Entertaining, witty, and illuminating. British talk show host David Frost arranges a series of televised interviews with President Nixon in the months following his resignation from office. Since the actual events described in this movie are prior to my first political awareness (which came with the yellow ribbons of the Iran hostage crisis), I don't have any ability to judge the veracity of the story line. But it does paint a decent picture of the emotion involved with both Nixon supporters and detractors during that time. Overall, just an average film and not "best picture" caliber as the academy seems to think. But it did lead me to push the original Frost/Nixon interviews to the top of my Netflix list.
3-stars
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