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22 August 1992 (USA)
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He was McCarthy's loyal partner. The Kennedys' worst enemy. The F.B.I.'s best friend. The country's greatest nightmare.
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As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
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11 nominations
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Disgusting and true
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| James Woods | ... | Roy Marcus Cohn | |
| Joe Don Baker | ... | Sen. Joseph McCarthy | |
| Joseph Bologna | ... | Walter Winchell | |
| Ed Flanders | ... | Joseph N Welch | |
| Frederic Forrest | ... | Dashiell Hammett | |
| Lee Grant | ... | Dora Cohn | |
| Pat Hingle | ... | J. Edgar Hoover | |
| John McMartin | ... | Older Doctor | |
| Josef Sommer | ... | Albert Cohn | |
| Daniel Benzali | ... | Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman | |
| Tovah Feldshuh | ... | Iva Schlesinger | |
| John Finn | ... | Sen. Charles Potter | |
| Frances Foster | ... | First Annie Lee Moss | |
| Allen Garfield | ... | Abe Feller | |
| David Marshall Grant | ... | Robert F. Kennedy |
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UK:107 min | USA:115 min
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In this film, Lee Grant played Dora Cohn, Roy Cohn's mother. In real life, just as Lee Grant's career was exploding ('Best Actress' winner at Cannes & nominee at Oscars), she fell victim to McCarthyism, being blacklisted in 1951 by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to testify against her husband, blacklisted playwright/screenwriter Arnold Manoff. As a result, she got very little work for about 12 years.
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Factual errors: As he is scattering ashes into what is purportedly the East River, Cohn says he consigns his mother to the waters of New Jersey, where she did not live. The East River does not border New Jersey.
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Roy Marcus Cohn:
Well, to me, a Commie Jew is as disgusting as a Nazi Jew would be to you.
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"Citizen Cohn" (1992): James Woods plays intense characters. This may be his best. Roy Cohn (Woods) was the pit bull dog of a lawyer for Senator Joe McCarthy during the Commie Hunts of the 1950's and beyond. We follow Cohn's life his self-righteous, contradictory, opportunistic, sleazy life from childhood to death bed. Structured in flashbacks and flashforwards, we see his twisted points of view along with his victims and lackies. This is one of the best character studies ever made. It's disgusting, and true. Also starring Joe Don Baker, Joseph Bologna, Ed Flanders, Frederick Forrest, Lee Grant, and others. If you like Woods' job in this one (and you will), see "Another Day in Paradise" or the classic "The Onion Field".