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Director:
Frank Pierson
Writers (WGA):
Nicolas von Hoffman (biography)
David Franzoni (written by)
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Release Date:
22 August 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
He was McCarthy's loyal partner. The Kennedys' worst enemy. The F.B.I.'s best friend. The country's greatest nightmare.
Plot:
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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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 8 wins & 11 nominations more
User Comments:
Disgusting and true more (20 total)

Cast

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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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Runtime:
UK:107 min | USA:115 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Iceland:16 | UK:15 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Carnegie Mellon University - 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA more
Company:
Breakheart Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Roy Marcus Cohn: Well, to me, a Commie Jew is as disgusting as a Nazi Jew would be to you. more

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Disgusting and true, 9 December 2008
Author: (futures@exis.net) from Ronn Ives/FUTURES Antiques, Norfolk, VA.

"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".

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