Death of a President (2006)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 27, 2006

Running Time: 93 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue English and Arabic

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring:

Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Michael Reilly Burke, M Neko Parham, Seena Jon, Robert Mangiardi, Jay Patterson, Chavez Ravine, Christian Stolte

director:

Gabriel Range

Death of a President

Death Of A President

An unknown gunman assassinates George W. Bush. A couple of years later, an investigative documentary is made. It features all the people involved that fateful day: the protestors outside a Chicago hotel; the suspects in the shooting and their families; the Secret Service men who failed to protect their charge; the press; and an array of experts, desperately seeking meaning in this horrible act of violence. We learn, agonizingly, what happened to America after the death of a president.

PETER TRAVERS - October 27, 2006

This is the fake documentary you've been hearing about. The one in which British filmmaker Gabriel Range gooses his computer to make it look like George Bush, visiting Chicago in 2007, has just been assassinated. Look, I don't want to see Dubya dead, just departed, from the White House, that is. Sen. Hillary Clinton thinks the very idea of the movie is "despicable." I think the failure of the movie as drama or political provocation makes it unworthy of fuss. Range stages the details leading up…