Director Liza Johnson (“Return” 2011) and stars Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon pull off an unlikely entertaining movie based solely on a photograph featuring two prominent personalities well known to the general public. “Elvis & Nixon” is the result.
Shannon and Spacey play the King of Rock & Roll and the 37th President of the United States, respectively, both with great subtlety. They seem to resist the temptation to over-act and exaggerate the mannerisms of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon. Another stand-out actor is Colin Hanks, son of Tom Hanks, as Nixon aide Bud Krogh. Hanks did a great job with this secondary role.
Screenwriters Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes deserve credit for a job well done, filing in the blanks in a meeting they did not witness, which took place on Dec. 21, 1970, at the White House. This independent motion picture flopped at the box office, also starred Alex Pettyfer, Evan Peters, Ashley Benson, Johnny Knoxville, Tate Donovan, Tracy Letts, Sky Ferreira, Ahna O’Reilly, Ashley Benson, Joey Sagal, Dylan Penn (daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright), and Geraldine Singer as Rose Mary Woods.
Elvis & Nixon (2016)
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My Review
Director Liza Johnson (“Return” 2011) and stars Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon pull off an unlikely entertaining movie based solely on a photograph featuring two prominent personalities well known to the general public. “Elvis & Nixon” is the result.
Shannon and Spacey play the King of Rock & Roll and the 37th President of the United States, respectively, both with great subtlety. They seem to resist the temptation to over-act and exaggerate the mannerisms of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon. Another stand-out actor is Colin Hanks, son of Tom Hanks, as Nixon aide Bud Krogh. Hanks did a great job with this secondary role.
Screenwriters Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes deserve credit for a job well done, filing in the blanks in a meeting they did not witness, which took place on Dec. 21, 1970, at the White House. This independent motion picture flopped at the box office, also starred Alex Pettyfer, Evan Peters, Ashley Benson, Johnny Knoxville, Tate Donovan, Tracy Letts, Sky Ferreira, Ahna O’Reilly, Ashley Benson, Joey Sagal, Dylan Penn (daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright), and Geraldine Singer as Rose Mary Woods.