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Release Date: Dec 29, 2004
Running Time: 95 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Based on the 1974 true story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, a paranoid and alienated salesman who is tired of preying on customers. Rejected for a government loan and spurned by his family, he focuses his resentment on Nixon as the figurehead of the US capitalist system and obsessively plots his downfall.
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Samuel Bicke
Bonny Simmons
Marie Bicke
Martin Jones
Julius Bicke
Harold Mann
Tom Ford
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PETER TRAVERS -
January 6, 2005
True story: six months before Richard Nixon resigned, in 1974, screw-up husband, father and salesman Samuel Byck tried to take him out, in a prescient 9/11 scenario, by hijacking a jet and crashing it into the White House. Byck failed but died trying. This prototypical little-guy loser felt betrayed by his family, his job and his country. He viewed Tricky Dick as the symbol of his torment. First-time director and co-writer Niels Mueller saw Byck (called Bicke to allow for fictional finagling) as…
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