Good Film

Scouter from , 19th November, 2009

I enjoyed this film and wished that the extras had actually included the real interview

Frost Nixon

MRSBOURN from , 19th November, 2009

Michael Sheen is a genius and this film is absolutely gripping. For someone who knew very little about this series of events, I was engrossed throughout so I would highly recommend to someone who remembers it happening. Brilliant film!

Great film

pixie from , 19th November, 2009

Michael Sheen is such a chameleon, the man can change voices and faces to become the person he is portraying and he does David Frost fantastcially. The story of the infamous interviews with Nixon are done really well, and Nixon was such a crooked president and it shows in this film. Worth watching for the historical factors as well.

brilliant

soz from , 18th November, 2009

It was brilliantly done, written and acted. 10/10. I am too young to have remembered it first time round so it was great to see it. Well done.

Dave vs. Dick

Teebs from , 18th November, 2009

Surprisingly gripping story that doesn't sound too interesting on paper. Underdog, out of depth TV personality interviews recently disgraced ex-president Nixon. But the film creates a surprising amount of drama and tension out of the battle of wits, helped no end by a great cast, fairly standard sports movie structure and theatre-honed Peter Morgan script. Can't help but feel it over-dramatizes a slightly underwhelming media event, and Langella is so good he perhaps gives Nixon far more depth and sympathy than deserved!?

Excellent

A Customer from Liverpool, 18th November, 2009

Excellent insight into two interesting people.
Acting was simply superb!

Amazing

A Customer from Carmarthen, 11th November, 2009

This was much more enjoyable than I expected. One reason for our enjoyment was Frank Langella's tour de force as Nixon (his failure to win an oscar is a travesty being in a different league to Penn's Milk as was Mickey Rourke in the Wrestler). The whole background to the build up to the interviews held our attention. Supporting actors to Langella were all good. A reminder of not only Nixon's great weaknesses but also some of his strengths and he did have them.

Well worth watching

Helen Bulford from Middx, 7th November, 2009

Facinating. A great character study of both Nixon and David Frost.

Highly recommended

Jollyjambo from , 5th November, 2009

This is a very tense and dramatic film that will have you on the edge of your seat. It is based on a series of interviews between David Frost and Richard Milhouse Nixon in 1977 and the events that led up to them. This was three years after Nixon was forced to resign as the 37th President of the USA following the Watergate scandal. The film was directed by Ron Howard and stars Frank Langella as Nixon and Michael Sheen as David Frost. The actors don’t look that much like the people they are portraying but they do seem to get the mannerisms incredibly right and you stop noticing that it isn't the real people. It gives a fantastic insight into two driven men who in reality are both deeply flawed individuals. In the end you may not like them very much but you might just have to admire them a bit for what they had achieved. When Nixon resigned he was pardoned of all crimes by the new incoming President Gerald Ford. Many people in America and the rest of the World felt cheated that Nixon never stood trial for the things he had done. This was not limited to Watergate but included the covert campaigns that he approved as part of the war in Vietnam and the bombing of innocent civilians in neutral Cambodia. Frost was a British talk show host and light entertainer who had the idea of letting the world hear Nixon’s justifications for his actions. There were many political correspondents, particularly in America, who wanted to interview Nixon but the Networks wouldn’t pay for the privilege of interviewing him. Frost was willing to pay and Nixon also thought that he would get an easier time from a British talk show host than he would from an experience American political commentator. For a variety of reasons the US TV Networks wouldn’t support Frost and he nearly bankrupted himself and quite a few of his friends setting up the interviews. Without any buyers in place Frost knew that the material would need to be really good to enable him to sell it. Nixon however was the master politician and could talk for hours in a way that showed him in a good light. It is likely that some events in the film may have been slightly changed to achieve dramatic effect and there are those that claim that Nixon agreed to ‘tell the truth’ rather than having it drawn out of him by Frost’s questioning. None of this really matters. Nixon’s actual statements are accurately reported and still have the ability to shock today. An excellent film and highly recommended.

convincing film

A Customer from Crewe, 3rd November, 2009

I really enjoyed this film, and it was good to get what I believe to be an informed view of US political events that I didn't really take much notice of at the time. Couldn't really see David Frost in Michael Sheen's performance though, felt he wasn't quite right for the part.