I saw the movie and I had liked it this is based on a true story but not for children to watch

Terrific movie! Riveting, and the acting is superb, especially Frank Langella.

Although I recall watching these interviews many years ago, the film was absolutely riveting. Great backround story of a memorable event. Very well done.

Well done piece from Ron Howard and Peter Morgan. I was unaware of the behind the scenes motivation for the standoff between these two (effectively $$, I suppose). Frank Langella was excellent as "Tricky Dick".

is that simple ?

I wouldn't blame any one person for entertainment journalism and souless politicians, but Frost and Nixon are archetypes of their kind. Ron Howard gathered the talent for this film, and mostly stays out of their way. Michael Sheen plays the naturally inexpressive Frost, in a way that makes him understandable. In the extras, Frank Langella mentions there are several ways to play the final confrontation, and the one Howard chooses is SPOILER surprise! an emotional climax, rather than something more subtle. In the real interview, Nixon wore a bitter smile: the old fox acknowledging he has been out-foxed.

Why spend 2 million dollars to Interview a fallen president?

Perhaps the most revealing summary of this movie is to be found in the 'Special Features' section (and what Special Features section has ever revealed a critically minded remark by either an actor,writer, director, or producer - e.g. see "Snakes on a Plane") that this was a history, nay, even an epoch-making event of the greatest magnitude. Nixon's admission in the final segment, if indeed one may be permitted to use the word, was nothing more than a public relations move - which was the premise of the agreement for the interviews in the first place - and as such, he showed no signs of contrition. Telford Taylor, an assistant prosecutorial counsel on the staff of former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson at the Nuremberg Trials, remarked after returning from a visit to Viet Nam in 1969, that if the United States were to hold itself to the very standard that Jackson put forth in his opening statement that the United States was not exempt from the standards by which the Nazi war criminals were being charged, stated that after what he had witnessed, the executive branch and the military would be subject to being tried as war criminals. And it is instructive to listen in far greater depth to the 4000 hours of the Nixon White House tapes that have emerged in all of their filth (I am not referring to the use of 'obscenities') and paucity of intellectual and creative thought that have been released thus far. Lastly, Frost's producer at that time, went on to become Prime Minister Tony Blair's advisor - the equivalent of 10 Downing Street's Alexander Haig - and as such was more than likely to know of the falsified intelligence revealing the presence of the so-called WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) in the former Iraq. This led to what even Colin Powell later described as the lowest point of his own career when he appeared at the UN declaring the absolute integrity of the information regarding the WMD and the justification to begin the eternal war not only in Iraq but the continued war in Afghanistan and the absurdities of this so-called world-wide conspiracy of a network of terrorism. The editors of this feature pass over this information in silence. While I greatly admire the actors, Frank Langella and Michael Sheen (who has emerged as one of the most gifted and versatile actors of the last decade), acting alone cannot save the poverty of imagination that paralyzes the would-be liberal spirit that informs not only the work as a whole, but also the directorial sensibilities of the Director, Ron Howard (aka Opie). Watch it anyway, and decide for yourself...

Full of political tension. If you like suspense, this has it. The story of a talkshow host who gambles everything he doesn't have on an interview with Nixon after his resignation as President of the USA. I wasn't politically aware at that time, so I really had no idea what happend at Watergate. This fills in a few blanks, but not all.

B+ DVD