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Release Date:
4 August 1999 (USA)
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He was tricky. They were better. more
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Story of two girls who wander away from a White House tour and meet President Nixon. full summary | add synopsis
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Richard Nixon
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4 nominations
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(26 articles)
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(From Extra. 16 October 2009, 4:35 PM, PDT)
Will Ferrell Cameos That Predate 'The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard'
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Easily one of the two or three best comedies of '99
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kirsten Dunst | ... | Betsy Jobs | |
| Michelle Williams | ... | Arlene Lorenzo | |
| Dan Hedaya | ... | President Richard M. Nixon | |
| Will Ferrell | ... | Bob Woodward | |
| Bruce McCulloch | ... | Carl Bernstein | |
| Teri Garr | ... | Helen Lorenzo | |
| Dave Foley | ... | Bob Haldeman | |
| Jim Breuer | ... | John Dean | |
| Ana Gasteyer | ... | Rose Mary Woods | |
| Harry Shearer | ... | G. Gordon Liddy | |
| Saul Rubinek | ... | Henry Kissinger | |
| Devon Gummersall | ... | Larry Jobs | |
| Ted McGinley | ... | Roderick | |
| Ryan Reynolds | ... | Chip | |
| G.D. Spradlin | ... | Ben Bradlee |
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Also Known As:
Dick, les coulisses de la présidence (France)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sex-related humor, drug content and language.
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94 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 (certificate #36541) |
Finland:K-3 |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:15 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Chile:14 |
France:U |
Germany:6 |
Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
UK:12
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G.D. Spradlin's last film.
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Anachronisms: Although the movie is set in 1972-73, Betsy's family is seen driving in a 1975 model Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon.
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (1999-08-07)" (1999)
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Coconut
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Dick is so unbelievably funny. It's one of those movies that gets funnier with repeated viewing, kinda like Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (doesn't hurt that it has two former Hall cast members). And what a cast it has. Lets take a look, we got the SNL crew (Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Jim Breuer), the Hall boys (Bruce McCulloch, Dave Foley), Simpsons voice Harry Shearer, and two cute as a button up and coming young actresses (Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams). But the big surprises for me were Hedaya and Rubinek, who would gave the most subtle, brilliant performances, and some of the biggest laughs. Rubinek, for example, only had a handful of lines in the film as Kissenger, but they're the ones that stuck with me. Little things like, "I'm familiar with these girls. Don't you look at me that way!" and "Yes, I know what nyet, nyet means". And Hedaya's evil Nixon was just hysterical, probably the most perfect comedic bad guy since Dr. Evil. How can you not love a villain with lines like, "Checkers--shut up! Or I'll feed you to the Chinese!". These guys had me in hysterics.
This from the writer/director of The Craft? Talk about a step in the right direction! But I could probably tell you without checking that The Craft made more money at the box office, sadly. But the centre of the film is Dunst and Williams, and if they weren't so incredibly good as the two air heads, the movie probably wouldn't have worked, despite the best efforts of the talented cast. Foley says it best, "I have met yams with more going on upstairs than these two." The movie keeps sneaking up on you with these quite, brilliant little lines, like the girls walking down a hallway, "I think it was left.", "That's because you couldn't turn right". Not to mention a terrific 70's soundtrack, and I don't even like music from that era (Nixon walking off to "You're so Vain" was the greatest!) Okay, I've said enough. Did I mention I liked this movie? See this movie. I'm Canadian, I don't understand exactly what Watergate was about (despite having seen Oliver Stone's Nixon twice), and I was just learning to walk when Nixon was forced out of office so I didn't recognize many of the names thrown around, but I loved it all the same and was able to get all of the jokes. 9/10 stars. G'night!