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Citizen Cohn (1992) (TV)
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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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Disturbing and funny
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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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When a tape is played from bugging Martin Luther Kings hotel room, the sounds of people having sex are the same sounds from the sex scene between Jack Nicholson and Sally Struthers in Five Easy Pieces (1970).
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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:
If you are a friend of Americas enemies, then you're an enemy too.
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This film is an amazing study in self-loathing. As Cohn himself puts it in the movie, he was "a Jew who persecuted Jews; a gay who persecuted gays." Always trying to prove something to himself or his parents, he recklessly smashed lives and helped create the paranoia of the McCarthy era.
In the midst of the tragedy there are some very funny moments such as when Cohn eats off the plates of everyone he is dining with including Cardinal Spellman of New York. He was indulged and self-indulgent.
There is a Shakespearian quality to some of the scenes in which Cohn speaks to himself or to the ghosts of people he hurt. This is a disturbing look at human ego as well as a bitterly funny movie.