An Oscar worthy movie

Rating: 10/10 (12 January 2009)

Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) was the most corrupt President in US history and was forced to resign before he was tossed out of office by the US Congress. Because he resigned and was pardoned for any possible criminal offense by President Ford, Nixon was never officially questioned for any of his possible crimes. David Frost (Michael Sheen) noted there was a hunger in the US to have Nixon question about his improprieties and convinced the disgraced former President to agree to a 4-part interview, 1/4 of which would be questioning about the Watergate scandal. The best scene in this film occurs not during Frost's questioning but when a drunk Nixon calls Frost in the night before his Watergate interview. Nixon delivers a drunken rant which reveals the type of personality he truly had. He rails at the elite institutions of the nation which never fully accepted him as an equal and informs Frost that he sees their interviews as a battle between two men, only one of which could be the winner. This is one of Ron Howard's best movies, it is the equal of "Apollo 13" and "A Beautiful Mind" and should be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. It gets a grade of "A" and a very strong recommendation.