The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Dec 29, 2004

Running Time: 95 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts, Brad William Henke, Michael Wincott, Mykelti Williamson, Nick Searcy, Tracy Middendorf, Lily Knight, Jack Thompson

director: Niels Mueller

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The Assassination of Richard Nixon

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.

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…