This film will make a Democrat out of you

Rating: 7/10 (26 October 1999)

The story of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's investigation into Watergate. Great performances and skillful writing make this a classic. After all, the principal action occurs in a news room, on the telephone, etc. This film will make a Democrat out of you. It will make you scorn, then resent how Watergate has been trivialized (most certainly by design) in recent times by attaching the "-gate" suffix to anything handy. D.P. Gordon Willis makes the necessarily sedentary scenes a pleasure to look at. On every conspiracy theorist's must see list. This stuff really happened. Pakula frequently uses real television footage. Robards manages to convey Bradlee's courage, which one tends to forget post facto. At the time, he took a big chance. Walden is excellent in a brief appearance.