After I missed last weeks film outing, which it seems I missed out on the comedy film of the year so far!! Due to being on call, I couldn’t go and see Sex Drive, which according to Chris was brillantly funny & full of topless Amish girls….BAH!!
Anyway, this week turned out to be a real bonus as we had 2 films in as many days…You see we’d been lucky enough to secure free tickets to a preview showing of the latest Ron Howard movie: Frost/Nixon. As you can probably guess from the title its based on the famous interviews between David Frost & Ex-Prseident Richard Nixon. Infact, it was the Presidents first TV interview since the Watergate scandal. Now, I’ll be completely honest & say that my American history isn’t the best & was totally unaware until I saw the trailer that it was in fact, David Frost that managed to crack Richard Nixon & get a confession & apology out of him!!
The film is actually really good, filmed as if it is a TV documentary looking back on the whole period surronding the interviews for the people involved etc. It unveils the struggle that Frost had in securing finances for the interviews – I mean, at the time, he was an English chat show host about to interview an hard nosed Ex-President in America….the networks just didn’t think he was the man for the job!! To begin with, they were almost right….the President just answered the questions with the type of waffle & avoidance you’d expect from a world leader!! It looks as though Frost was going to be destroyed by the whole experience…but after a late night call & plenty more research Frost broke down the President & managed to get that all important admission & apology to the American people!!
I can honestly say that I really enjoyed this film & the portryal of both President Nixon (Frank Langella) & David Frost (Michael Sheen) where superb….I actually never knew until writing this post that both the actors starred in the West End play of this film adaptaption. After watching the film, I have searched for the real Nixon Interviews on YouTube, just to see how accurate the film is…you can also check them out here on the official site.
So, for a free film this was truley a great cinema treat…I’d highly recommend you go & see this film, even if you know all the details of the scandal or not!! Plus, as a bonus, there is a pretty good supporting cast…including the lovely British actress: Rebecca Hall, who plays Frosts love interest Carloine Cushing. This up & coming actress is also starring the next Woody Allen movie: Vicky Cristina Barcelona…check out a few pics of her here.
Overall, my mark out of 10 would be a very good 8.