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Citizen Cohn

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Citizen Cohn
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1hr 52min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1992
Director:
Frank Pierson
Distributor:
HBO Home Video
Starring:
James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Lee Grant  ...more
Synopsis: Frank Pierson's made-for-cable adaptation of Nicholas VonHoffman's biography, Citizen Cohn stars James Woods as the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn. The film is structured as a series of flashbacks while Cohn lies in a New York hospital dying of AIDS. In the 1940s and early '50s, Cohn became one of the most powerful men in the country after becoming an important associate of Senator Joseph McCarthy (Joe Don Baker) and his Communist witch hunts. The film recounts those turbulent times and features portrayals ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Told in flashbacks as the powerful lawyer and chief assistant to Senator Joseph McCarthy lies in a hospital bed dying of AIDS, Citizen Cohn covers brilliant lawyer Roy Cohn's rise to power. Instinctively gifted with a grasp of the ways in which innuendo, half-truth, and lies could be used to destroy political opponents while advancing his career, the brutally efficient Cohn was far more frightening ... Full Review
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James Woods
Roy Marcus Cohn
Joe Don Baker
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Lee Grant
Dora
Joseph Bologna
Walter Winchell
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