The Assassination of Richard Nixon
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Set at the height of the Watergate scandal of 1974, and based on the true story of Samuel Bicke (Penn), The Assassination of Richard Nixon is about a hard-working, loving husband and father whose life suddenly falls apart. A trial separation from his wife (Watts) seems headed toward divorce rather than reconciliation and, after a bout of unemployment, the only new job he can find is for an unscrupulous businessman (Thompson) who requires Bicke to lie and cheat on a daily basis.
Hovering over his unraveling life is the spectre of Richard Nixon, a dishonored, dishonorable leader who seems to embody everything that is wrong with Bicke's world. Clinging desperately to the hope that he might yet get to live a version of the increasingly elusive American Dream, Bicke decides that he must stop everything Nixon represents. With this in mind, this basically decent, ordinary man, whose only goals are to reunite his family and own his own business, embarks on an extraordinary journey that will bring him face to face with history.
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