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	Richard Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhouse Nixon in a house his father built from a kit purchased from Sears, Roebuck.
		Nixon promised "peace with honor," and without claiming to be able to win the war, Nixon claimed that "new leadership will end the war and win the peace in the Pacific".
		Nixon's sense of being persecuted by his "enemies," his grandiose belief in his own moral and political excellence, and his commitment to utilize ruthless power at all costs led some experts to describe him as having a narcissistic and paranoid personality.
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	The Assassination of Richard Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a 2004 drama film, directed by Niels Mueller.
		It stars Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and Naomi Watts, and is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974.
		Jones also tells Bicke that he thinks Richard Nixon is the greatest salesman since he sold two election promises to the American people and reneged on them both yet remained in power.
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	The Assassination Of Richard Nixon (2004)
		A chiling drama that explores and exposes the dark side of the American Dream, The Assassination of Richard Nixon focuses on the tragic true story of Sam Bicke (Sean Penn), a disillusioned everyman who, in 1974, was driven to plot the assassination of the 37th president of the United States.
		Assassination makes Bick out to be a more sympathetic character than he really deserves, and it diminishes his essentially insanity to some degree.
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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	The Assassination of Richard Nixon - Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon is about Samuel Byck, who tried to kill Richard Nixon in 1974 by flying a plane into the White House.
		He remains a footnote to history: he never got near Nixon, although he was once arrested outside the White House, protesting in a Santa suit.
		Actually, in the era that began with Nixon, a man is known if he's on television and sometimes not even then.
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	DVD Times - The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		There are obvious parallels between Bick’s assassination attempt and the attacks on 9-11, and Bick’s disgust at America’s involvement in an unwinable war on the other side of the world has a clear comparison to the war in Iraq.
		Taxi Driver for example worked because the assassination plot line was a smaller piece of the puzzle when it came to understanding Travis Bickle’s frustration with society and his need to save the young prostitute Iris.
		In “Richard Nixon”, both title and the flashback structure indicates where we will end up by the end of the movie leaving a sense of waiting for the inevitable to happen and draining the film of any sense of ambiguousness.
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	The Assassination of Richard Nixon. - Friday, 02/11/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Based on an obscure true story, The Assassination of Richard Nixon is about a man named Samuel Byck (here spelled Bicke) who channeled his frustration, disappointment and anger into a 1974 plot to kill the 37th president of the United States.
		That Byck did not succeed is a no-brainer; Nixon lived long enough to resign from office amidst the Watergate scandal and then reinvent himself as an elder statesman before dying at 81 in 1994.
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon acknowledges the fact that in a society run by contract, not everyone is going to agree to sign on.
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	filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		Richard Nixon does not die in The Assassination of Richard Nixon, but the film’s protagonist – a depressed, angry, middle-aged man named Samuel Bicke (Sean Penn) – eventually comes to believe that, for the good of himself and his country, the commander-in-chief deserves death.
		Estranged from his wife, unable to hold down employment, and disgusted by the lies and hypocrisies of a 1974 American society that favors the deceitful rich and powerful over the little man, Bicke is a powder keg waiting for his fuse to be lit.
		Written by Mueller and Kevin Kennedy (whose script was inspired by the real-life assassination attempt of Samuel Byke), The Assassination of Richard Nixon parallels to 9/11 and vocalization of common anti-Bush sentiments are – at least according to the director – purely coincidental, as the project was initially conceived years ago.
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	Premiere Magazine: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		The only successful assassination attempt on our 37th President was one of character, which makes it ironically appropriate that such a radically titled film would focus more on a fictionalized character study than the actual events that inspired it.
		Cowritten and directed by first-time helmer Niels Muller, The Assassination of Richard Nixon sets the way-back machine for 1974, when an average shlub named Sam Byck tried to hijack a 747 and fly it into the White House, his sights set on the Watergate-keeper himself.
		"Salesman" Nixon (the personification of all Bicke’s displaced anger) mirrors a certain Republican incumbent—but lefty leanings aside—the brilliant subtleties of this absorbing, must-see drama are best seen through Penn, who transforms a strongly nuanced script into the greatest performance of the year.
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	kamera.co.uk - film review - The Assassination of Richard Nixon directed by Director: Niels ...
		Apart from this trifling coincidence, The Assassination of Richard Nixon is about as far from 2003's Mystic River as you can get, although both feature the trademark plonking intensity/humourlessness Penn brought to this year's Oscars shindig.
		As with 1973's The Day of the Jackal, which concerned the plot to assassinate De Gaulle, the film inevitably loses zing given the recorded facts – I'm pretty sure the much maligned 37th President left town in a Marine helicopter, not a fiery explosion.
		Entertainment-wise, The Assassination of Richard Nixon is towards the back of a crowded field led by the likes of 1993's Falling Down and the original 1962 Manchurian Candidate.
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	The Assassination of Richard Nixon movie trailer review pics pictures poster news DVD at The Z Review
		Byck was a troubled furniture salesman who viewed Nixon as the incarnation of capitalism, and thus felt that the 37th president was at the root of all of his problems.
		The website for The Assassination Of Richard Nixon is now live at this location.
		Assassination of Richard Nixon for director Niels Mueller.
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	The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		In "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," Sean Penn plays a Dostoyevskian Everyman, a hapless would-be presidential killer sinking into a purgatory of futility, madness and delusions of sick grandeur.
		Directed and written by first-time feature maker Niels Mueller, "Assassination" is not only a picture set in the '70s (the winter of 1974, to be exact) but an attempt to revive the experimental verve, depth and edge of the best '70s movies.
		When Sam decides to kill Nixon, who in his mind is the key to all that's wrong with the world and his life, there's a shivery echo of recent events.
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	Amazon.ca: The Assassination of Richard Nixon [IMPORT]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Nixon, the epitome of dishonesty, becomes the locus of his rage, so Bicke devises a plan to eliminate him.
		If The Assassination of Richard Nixon doesn't hit Taxi Driver's (admittedly lofty) heights, it's still a discomfiting look at a man determined to leave his mark on the world, only to become a footnote.
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon is not really about Sam Bicke's little-known, confused, and wildly unsuccessful plan to actually assassinate Richard Nixon in early 1974.
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	GreenCine \| product main - The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
		The true story of a man who, on February 22, 1974, was thwarted from an ambitious plan for political assassination provides the basis for this striking psychological drama.
		Desperate to seem important in some way, Bicke becomes increasingly obsessed with the duplicity of Richard Nixon, until he chooses to take it upon himself to stop the president once and for all.
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon was the first feature film from director Niels Mueller.
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	BBC - Movies - review - The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
		A bleak and compelling drama based on a true story, The Assassination Of Richard Nixon stars Sean Penn as Sam Bicke, a frustrated little man whose life is falling apart.
		As America fights in Vietnam and President Richard Nixon lies from every TV screen he sees, Bicke begins to unravel, hatching a plan to fly a plane into the White House...
		The outspoken Oscar winner has made no secret of his opposition to the American invasion of Iraq and his doubts over the 'War on Terror', and this film is particularly bold in the current political climate.
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	Movie Review - The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a smart and creative character examination that takes on a life of its own in today's time.
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon is writer and first-time director Niels Mueller's chilling portrait of a man hell-bent on making a name for himself.
		As Sam fails to realize Nixon's promises of aid for the small businessman, his disdain for the President begins to seethe deep in his soul.
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	Metroactive Movies \| 'The Assassination of Richard Nixon'
		The title is The Assassination of Richard Nixon, but the film is implicitly about the current dilemma, not 1974--this explains the amount of time spent castigating the lying Nixon as the source of Bicke's problems.
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon favors Penn's angry innocent who can't commit to the kind of compromises we all take for granted.
		The Assassination of Richard Nixon (R; 95 min.), written by Kevin Kennedy and Niels Mueller, directed by Mueller, and starring Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and Naomi Watts, opens Friday at the Nickelodeon in Santa Cruz.
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		As the Watergate scandal is breaking and President Nixon can be seen all over the television and newspapers, Bicke struggles to earn money as an office furniture salesman as he tries to win back his estranged wife, Marie (a brunette Naomi Watts).
		He has grand plans of starting a mobile tire store with his friend Bonny (Don Cheadle), but he is so blinded by truth and honesty that he stands in the way of his own potential success.
		Distributor Notes Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman (Penn) who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.
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	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'The Assassination of Richard Nixon'
		Dark and eerily resonant, Niels Mueller's "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," partly based on a true story, crawls under your skin and amps up the agitation until you want to jump out of it.
		"The Assassination of Richard Nixon" is a film not only about fear of failure but about bewilderment at failure, a distinctly American terror.
		Deeply mired in the Watergate scandal, Nixon becomes for Sam, as his life unravels, a symbol of the triumph of dishonesty over integrity, especially after the otter-sleek Jack admiringly describes the president as the greatest salesman in the country.
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	The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		A chilling drama that explores and exposes the dark side of the American Dream, THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON focuses on the prescient and tragic true story of Sam Bicke (Penn), a disillusioned "everyman" who, in 1974, was driven to plot the assassination of the 37th President of the United States.
		By contrast, in THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON, he seems to literally have shrunken in size, playing an "average Joe" whose very problem is that he cannot achieve much stature or respect in the various arenas where men are asked to prove themselves.
		This is not only because he never succeeded in even getting near the President, but also because, in the annals of assassins and would-be assassins, he remains a mere footnote, eclipsed-even in his own day-by the Watergate scandal and the incessant televised coverage that drove Byck to target Nixon in the first place.
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	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Assassination of Richard Nixon (xhtml)
		His own frustration and the evils in the world are all the same, all somehow someone else's fault, and in the opening scene of "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," we see him in an airport parking garage, concealing a pistol in a leg brace.
		Niels Mueller's movie is based on his botched assassination scheme, but many of the other details, including some scenes of mordant humor, are the invention of Mueller and his co-writer, Kevin Kennedy.
		"The Assassination of Richard Nixon" is about a man on a collision course; given the stark terms in which he arranges right and wrong, he will sooner or later crack up.
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	Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004): Reviews
		A chilling drama that explores and exposes the dark side of the American Dream, this film focuses on the prescient and tragic true story of Sam Bicke (Penn), a disillusioned "everyman" who, in 1974, was driven to plot the assassination of the 37th President of the United States.
		That The Assassination of Richard Nixon is as well directed, acted and shot as it is makes Mr.
		The primary problem with The Assassination of Richard Nixon comes in its attempts to make drama out of a minor man's minor stab at infamy.
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	IGN: Poster Exclusive: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		In the film, which is based on a true story, Penn plays Sam Bicke, a disillusioned "everyman" who, in 1974, was driven to plot the assassination of the 37th President of the United States.
		Despite the fact that his marriage is breaking up and that he is trapped in a sales job he finds demeaning, Sam tries desperately to succeed both at home and in the workplace; all he wants is to win his family back and to start a business of his own.
		With images of Nixon – "the greatest salesman of them all" – flooding the airwaves, Sam believes he has found the person responsible for his, and America's, problems and makes his appointment with destiny.
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	OFFOFFOFF film review THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON movie by Niels Mueller with Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Byck later shared a chapter with Lee Harvey Oswald in James W. Clarke's 1982 history "American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics," and resurfaced as a character in Stephen Sondheim's 1990 musical "Assassins," which was revived on Broadway early in 2004.
		"The Assassination of Richard Nixon" builds its dramatic impact by showing how one man gradually becomes unhinged — what brings him to the state where we first see him, taping fevered messages explaining himself to Leonard Bernstein, of all people, a celebrity with whom Bicke had no prior contact.
		After Jack lauds Nixon because he won election both times by selling 200 million Americans the same lie twice — i.e., a promise to end the war in Vietnam — Sam begins equating the businessman's tricks of the retail trade with the duplicity of Tricky Dick.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
		However, the poorly planned hijacking was such a mess that Byck was killed by police before the plane even left the gate, and his ambitious motivation for the soon-forgotten crime was only discovered weeks later.
		In Niels Mueller's fine The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), Byck's defining impotence is so carefully wrought that he emerges from his anonymity as an effectively empathetic poster-boy for all despondent losers with violent urges and messianic delusions.
		By the time The Assassination of Richard Nixon begins, Bicke has already begun his downward keel, and although the movie runs a brisk 95 minutes, that gives ample time for Mueller and Penn to explore his acceleration toward self-destruction.
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