I had Frost/Nixon as one of my top 3 movies from last year.  I’m usually not huge on Ron Howard fan unless he’s hanging out at Al’s with Ralph and Potsie, but this was one of his best.  With that said, it’s not the best movie I have ever seen about Richard Nixon.  No, Oliver Stone’s Nixon isn’t either.  The best one doesn’t even really have Nixon as a character.  The lead characters in the best Nixon movie I have ever seen, All The President’s Men are the guys who brought him down. 

The men who broke the story that eventually led to Nixon’s resignation are the now famous Woodward and Bernstein, played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.  What’s great about this movie is there is no fluff.  They don’t dwell on if one of the main characters had a drinking problem or if one had relationship issues.  It doesn’t matter.  That’s not what this movie is about.  It’s about the facts.  How the story broke, who was involved and what was the outcome.  That’s what we get.  Director Alan Pakula puts us in the news room and on the streets of Washington DC and shows us how the biggest political scandal in the nation’s history unfolded.  The acting is great from top to bottom.  There is no over-acting, what actually happened is interesting and suspenseful enough.  This is how true stories should be done.  If you’re interested in American History and this particular time in the history, this is a can’t miss.