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Secret Honor

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Secret Honor
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NR,1hr 30min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
July 1, 1984
Director:
Robert Altman
Distributor:
Cinecom International Films
Starring:
Philip Baker Hall
Synopsis: After resigning in disgrace, Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall) sits at a desk in his study late at night, dictating his memoirs. Taking one drink, then another, he rants about Eisenhower, Castro, Khruschchev, Kissinger, the Kennedys, and any number of other people, some real, some imagined, finally cohering into a remarkable explanation of why his fall from grace was actually a supreme and selfless act of patriotism. Robert Altman's film adaptation of Hall's one-man show (written by Donald Freed ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Tellingly subtitled A Political Myth, Robert Altman's film version of Philip Baker Hall's one-man show Secret Honor (1984) intriguingly imagines a disgraced Richard Nixon as he spends an evening raging against his dying political light. Smoothly framing Hall's actions through the two media that were the bane of Nixon's career (unflattering TV and even more unflattering tape recordings), Secret Honor ... Full Review
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Philip Baker Hall
Richard M. Nixon
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