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Release Date:
20 December 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Story That Won't Go Away more
Plot:
A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 10 wins
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20 nominations
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(54 articles)
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One of the best and most important films ever made!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sally Kirkland | ... | Rose Cheramie | |
| Anthony Ramirez | ... | Epileptic | |
| Ray LePere | ... | Zapruder | |
| Steve Reed | ... | John F. Kennedy - Double | |
| Jodie Farber | ... | Jackie Kennedy - Double (as Jodi Farber) | |
| Columbia Dubose | ... | Nellie Connally - Double | |
| Randy Means | ... | Gov. Connally - Double | |
| Kevin Costner | ... | Jim Garrison | |
| Jay O. Sanders | ... | Lou Ivon | |
| E.J. Morris | ... | Plaza Witness #1 | |
| Cheryl Penland | ... | Plaza Witness #2 | |
| Jim Gough | ... | Plaza Witness #3 | |
| Perry R. Russo | ... | Angry Bar Patron | |
| Mike Longman | ... | TV Newsman #1 | |
| Edward Asner | ... | Guy Bannister |
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MPAA:
Rated R for language. (also 1992 edited version)
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Runtime:
189 min | USA:206 min (director's cut)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:K-12 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) (TV rating) |
Iceland:12 |
Brazil:14 |
Singapore:NC-16 (re-rating) |
Singapore:PG (original rating) (cut) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) |
Germany:12 (bw) |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:11 |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:R (No. 31561)
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James Woods eagerly lobbied for the role of Garrison. However he and Oliver Stone had vast creative differences, Woods wanting the film to be more of a biography of Jim Garrison with much more emphasis on his personal life, while Stone wanted it to be primarily about the case.
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Anachronisms: During a flashback detailing the running of guns from Dallas to Miami via New Orleans, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is shown as a double span. As the time was pre-Kennedy assassination, the Causeway would have been just a single span - the second span was not open for traffic until 1969. Additionally, traffic going to Miami from New Orleans would not have traveled via the Causeway.
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Quotes:
Jim Garrison:
I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment. Is that why?
X: Well that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia. Keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents 'em from asking the most important question, why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?
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X: Well that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia. Keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents 'em from asking the most important question, why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Critic: L.A. Jay (#1.9)" (1994)
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Soundtrack:
Eternal Father, Strong To Save
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FAQ
Did LBJ Really Say 'Just let me get elected, and then you can have your war'?Who Was The 'Umbrella Man'? And Was He Part Of The Assassination?
Who Was Mr. X?
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Oliver Stone's epic film which follows the real-life events of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is a monumental movie event. It should have been named the Best Picture of 1991 instead of The Silence of the Lambs.
Everything about this film is perfect and it shows that when an intriguing story comes together with all other elements of filmmaking that are executed brilliantly, the film works on so many levels.
First off, Stone's direction is as good as it gets. He has an incredible passion for the subject, knowledge of the art and relationship with the camera. All of his footage goes together seamlessly and makes the 3 h 08 min running time blow by. He gets a strong performance out of the entire ensemble cast especially Costner, Jones, Oldman, and Pesci.
Scalia and Hutsching's editing is a work of art and tells the complicated story with incredible precision. Richardson's cinematography lights up the screen in both colour and black and white. Both of these technical aspects of filmmaking are molded into sheer artistry by these three men who have all deserved their Oscars for this film.
John Williams' score is one of his best (right up there with his Indiana Jones and Star Wars). The script is intelligent, thought-provoking, mesmorizing and heart-wrenching. Costner's closing speech to the Jury is finer that Nicholson's in A Few Good Men, McConaughey's in A Time to Kill and Jackson's in Pulp Fiction. It is Stone and Sklar's best work.
The subject matter is incredibly controverial and subjective but Stone's delivers it with such emotion and raw power that his alternate myth to the Warren Report seems factual. The film is an investigation into the human spirit and how the vigour and dedication of one man and his team of associates can rise above the highest powers of the world and encode a message into the minds and hearts of millions. John F. Kennedy has countless achievements and qualities as a president which makes his life and term one of the most incredible and worthy of deep study.
Oliver Stone's JFK should go down in film history as one of the most important American films ever produced. Watch it with an open mind free of prejudice and predisposition and you will find yourself wanting to go to the library and learn more about this global tragedy.