Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
- Awards
- 7 nominations total
Gillian Mariner Gordon
- Cricket
- (as Gillian Gordon)
Katie Henoch
- Suzy
- (as Kate Henoch)
David De Beck
- Sargent Shriver
- (as David DeBeck)
Matthew Lawler
- Dun Gifford
- (as Matt Lawler)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe bridge where they were driving on was the Dike Bridge on the eastern part of the island, that connects the main part of Chappaquiddick with a strip of beach that runs north/south. While there are some homes along that eastern strip of beach on the north end, the party was not at one of them. The mystery of why they were driving on Dike Bridge has never been answered.
- GoofsTed asks the operator to make a collect call and gives his name, but never gives a phone number. The operator patches the call without it. By the late 1960s, pay phones allowed callers to directly dial a collect call by dialing a 0 rather than a 1 before the area code and phone number, and then telling the operator who picked up that it was a collect call and giving the operator his/her name.
- Quotes
Joseph Kennedy: You'll never be great.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Ben Shapiro Show: A Big Leftist Myth Implodes on Taxes (2017)
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Written by Merrell Fankhauser (as Merrell Wayne Fankhauser)
Performed by Fapardokly
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Featured review
Ted Kennedy and his memory even today is idolized by various women's groups. This movie shows the truth for those of us who remember his abandonment of Mary Jo and let her die a slow, agonizing death in the car he crashed. And then his contradictory stories in the cover up. The powerful family even reached into the court system to block exhumation of Mary Jo's body, thus helping the extensive coverup. This is a real story about real people and until this movie, the media protected Teddy and his powerful family. More people should see this, the truth should be out there. And Ted Kennedy should not be idolized. He should have faced a jury on manslaughter charges.
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $17,395,520
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,765,854
- Apr 8, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $18,263,470
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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