Interesting Concept

Rating: 9/10 (30 October 2014)

Director Ron Howard took the Richard Nixon interviews with David Frost of the 1970s and made an interesting and entertaining film. I always knew that Nixon resigned from the Presidency, but before I saw this film I had no idea who David Frost was, or that he interviewed Nixon.
When David Frost, a talk show host, decides to interview Richard Nixon, the entire nation thinks it is a joke. A man named Jim Reston (in the film, who knows if he was based on a real person) convinces Frost to punish Nixon. He says that Richard Nixon needs "the trial he never got" and that he should not be able to exonerate himself in the interview. Frost cleverly brings up 'watergate' and keeps asking Nixon until the President cracks under pressure. The initial idea for this film is very interesting and I think it was executed well both in acting and writing.