Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 02/21/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 138 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Watch With Your Teen
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Conspiracy film specialist
Alan J. Pakula turned journalists
Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex, green
Washington Post reporters/rivals
Woodward (
Robert Redford, who also exec produced) and
Bernstein (
Dustin Hoffman) stumble on a possible connection between the burglars and a White House staffer. With the circumspect approval of executive editor
Ben Bradlee (
Jason Robards), the pair digs deeper. Aided by a guilt-ridden turncoat bookkeeper (
Jane Alexander) and the vital if cryptic guidance of
Woodward's mystery source,
Deep Throat (
Hal Holbrook),
Woodward and
Bernstein "follow the money" all the way to the top of the
Nixon administration. Despite
Deep Throat's warnings that their lives are in danger, and the reluctance of older
Post editors,
Woodward and
Bernstein are determined to get out the story of the crime and its presidential cover-up. Once
Bradlee is convinced, the final teletype impassively taps out the historically explosive results.
~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
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