Storyline
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party, and eventually into the White House itself.
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Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Jane Alexander, Ned Beatty, George Wyner, Dominic Chianese, Robert Redford, F. Murray Abraham, Sid Ganis, James Karen, Hal Holbrook, Polly Holliday, Christopher Murray, Anthony Mannino, Martin Balsam, John Randolph, Gene Dynarski, John McMartin, Stephen Collins, James Murtaugh, Basil Hoffman, Paul Lambert, Lindsay Crouse, Jack Warden, Jason Robards, Nicolas Coster, Richard Venture, Richard Herd, Nate Esformes, David Arkin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Bryan Clark, John O'Leary, Meredith Baxter, Penny Fuller, Penny Peyser, Robert Walden, Ron Hale, Frank Latimore, Neva Patterson, Joshua Shelley, Gene Lindsey, Stanley Bennett Clay, John Furlong, Valerie Curtin, Jess Osuna, Frank Wills, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Henry Calvert, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Carol Trost, John Devlin, Cara Duff-MacCormick, Louis Quinn
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Reviews
100
Empire
One of modern American film’s most intelligent and provocative accounts of a nation’s political failings, and a near-perfect depiction of journalism at its purist and most inspired. To be more succinct, it is quite brilliant.
90
Despite the twists, turns and exceptionally complex detail of the Watergate scandal, All the President’s Men manages to make it both comprehensible and watchable – with a few flashy fictional touches to gussy up the facts.
90
The manners and methods of big-city newspapering, beautifully detailed, contribute as much to the momentum of the film as the mystery that's being uncovered. Maybe even more, since the real excitement of All The President's Men is in watching two comparatively inexperienced reporters stumble onto the story of their lives and develop it triumphantly, against all odds.
89
Drawn from the true adventures of the Washington Post reporters and their illustrious editor Ben Bradlee, the movie heroically recounts the dogged journalistic sleuthing that cracked the story of the Watergate break-in and cover-up.
88
It provides the most observant study of working journalists we're ever likely to see in a feature film. And it succeeds brilliantly in suggesting the mixture of exhilaration, paranoia, self-doubt, and courage that permeated the Washington Post as its two young reporters went after a presidency.
