{"id":5341,"date":"2017-01-08T16:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:14:18","slug":"frostnixon-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5341","title":{"rendered":"Frost\/Nixon-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frost\/Nixon-2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Ron Howard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #595<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Frost_nixon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23913\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Frost_nixon-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Frost_nixon-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Frost_nixon.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed January 8, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adapted from a Broadway play, director Ron Howard creates a powerful film surrounding the infamous 1977 interview between former President Nixon and interviewer David Frost.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Langella and Michael Sheen star.<\/p>\n<p>For someone too young to remember Nixon or the Watergate scandal, the film was very enlightening and historical for me on a personal level.<\/p>\n<p>Frost\/Nixon is also a very human story and well-made.<\/p>\n<p>The interview scenes are fantastic, as the constant back-and-forth, cat-and-mouse, each man looking for an opportunity to either pounce, avoid, or gain the upper hand is rich with character-driven possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The scuttlebutt and the behind-the-scenes scrambling by Nixon&#8217;s men is good drama.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, Frank Langella steals the show as President Nixon. He is confident, strong, yet vulnerable, and sad.<\/p>\n<p>An acting Tour De Force by Langella.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Picture, Best Director-Ron Howard, Best Actor-Frank Langella, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frost\/Nixon-2008 Director Ron Howard Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen Scott&#8217;s Review #595 Reviewed January 8, 2017 Grade: B+ Adapted from a Broadway play, director Ron Howard creates a powerful film surrounding the infamous 1977 interview between former President Nixon and interviewer David Frost. Frank Langella and Michael Sheen star. For someone too young to remember &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frost\/Nixon-2008<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,192,286,321],"tags":[889,1179,10924,12226,2460,1594,5725,1726,1659,12194],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-films","category-dramas","category-historical-dramas","category-political-dramas","tag-frank-langella","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-marc-mcclure","tag-matthew-macfadyen","tag-michael-sheen","tag-oliver-platt","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-ron-howard","tag-sam-rockwell","tag-toby-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23914,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/23914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}