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The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Rating:R (for language and a scene of graphic violence)
Genre:Drama
Release Date:December 29, 2004
Running time:95 minutes
Cast:Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Jack Thompson, Don Cheadle, Brad Henke
Director:Niels Mueller
Producer:Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente
Writer:Niels Mueller, Kevin Kennedy
Distributor:ThinkFilm

Description: Based on the 1974 true story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, a paranoid and alienated salesman who is tired of preying on customers. Rejected for a government loan and spurned by his family, he focuses his resentment on Nixon as the figurehead of the U.S. capitalist system and obsessively plots his downfall.

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