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11 May 1979 (USA) moreTagline:
They are the power. Protected by violence and ruled by corruption. [Video] morePlot:
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Very dry and very, very funny more (31 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jeff Bridges | ... | Nick Kegan | |
| John Huston | ... | Pa Kegan | |
| Anthony Perkins | ... | John Cerruti | |
| Eli Wallach | ... | Joe Diamond | |
| Sterling Hayden | ... | Z.K. Dawson | |
| Dorothy Malone | ... | Emma Kegan | |
| Tomas Milian | ... | Frank Mayo | |
| Belinda Bauer | ... | Yvette Malone | |
| Ralph Meeker | ... | Gameboy Baker | |
| Toshirô Mifune | ... | Keith | |
| Richard Boone | ... | Keifitz | |
| David Spielberg | ... | Miles Garner | |
| Brad Dexter | ... | Captain Heller One | |
| Michael Thoma | ... | Ray Doty | |
| Ed Madsen | ... | Captain Heller Two |
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Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | UK:18 (video rating) (1986) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:RFun Stuff
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Z.K. Dawson: You think before you speak, young man! Jesus, they didn't teach you kids nothin' since 1944. moreFAQ
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Nineteen years after JFK was killed (by whom?) and five years after Watergate, this one puts the whole conspiracy theory industry in its place. One of the funniest films I have seen for a very long time - anyone who still thinks that Americans don't do irony (always a stupid claim but one which is made time and again) should see this. But it's bone-dry and very subtle, and I can understand how many people were puzzled and bemused by this when it was first released and that it did not do well commercially. Performances are universally excellent, tho' Jeff Bridge as the starry-eyed son trying to discover who killed his half-brother, the US president, and John Hustion as the paterfamilias and caricature mega capitalist are treat. The plot is nonsensical, but then that is the whole point of a film which sends up conspiracy films something rotten and then some. Buy the video, because this really does bear watching again and again.