Secret Honor

1984

Action / Biography / Comedy / Drama / History

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 3771 3.8K

based on play or musical one-man show richard nixon conspiracy

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Plot summary

In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate and lambasting President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon him. His monologue explores his personal life and describes his upbringing and his mother. A tape recorder, a gun and whiskey are his only companions during his entire monologue, which is tinged with the vitriol and paranoia that puzzled the public during his presidency.

Director

Robert Altman Photo
Robert Altman

Top cast

Philip Baker Hall Photo
Philip Baker Hall as Richard Nixon
720p.WEB
832.68 MB
960*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Shioka O 7 / 10

This is miserable, funny and imaginative work. The

This is miserable, funny and imaginative work. The performance is compelling throughout. True one-man show.
Reviewed by Alec B 9 / 10

The screenplay is undeniably compelling and Philip Baker

The screenplay is undeniably compelling and Philip Baker Hall's performance is wonderfully manic.
Reviewed by William L 5 / 10

It's deeply disturbing that the world has lost

It's deeply disturbing that the world has lost beloved character actor Philip Baker Hall, who played a collapsing Nixon in this one-man tirade and lived another 38 years beyond it, while Henry Kissinger still continues to dole out his geopolitical expertise like a poisonous sludge dumped as runoff from a factory into a dead marsh. Secret Honor is a historical fantasy intended to explore the bizarre personality traits that peeked out from behind Nixon's deceptively wholesome and traditional forward-facing image, which became increasingly prominent with time (rather than to serve as a retrospective of the literal happenings of his political career). From that perspective, Hall gives some fantastic mood swings and idiosyncracies, he feels like an individual with a temper, an inferiority complex, and a series of issues. However, the material just doesn't seem to work that well for me, it's mostly a series of tirades against political opponents interlaced with a few childhood memories and a surprising number of Oedipus-esque episodes of Nixon longing for his mother. The film can never shake the stylings of its one-man play origins, and while Hall's enthusiasm and well-timed energy go a long way to elevating the final product (along with a heaping helping of expletives and quotable lines), ultimately the lack of variety is noticeable. I wanted to like it more than I ultimately did. But seriously, the best part of Secret Honor is hearing Hall go off against a portrait of Kissinger. It's comprehensive and vulgar enough that it couldn't be typed out here, but it's a tonic for the soul. (2.5/5)
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