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Summary: A Great Comedy!
Review: "Dick" is about two girls uncovering the truth about President Nixon. It is funny, light-hearted, and retro. Great for anyone looking for a movie to watch during a girls' night or when you feel a little ditzy. Much like "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion", it will keep you laughing all the way through!
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Summary: Get down, Checkers, you piece of ------!!!
Review: God, what a delicious movie! Where to begin? Nobody in the film looks like anybody they are supposed to be playing (John Dean, Henry Kisssinger, Bob Woodward, etc.) All the chronology is off. Much of the time the humor is deliberately dumb. And so on. It doesn't matter. "Dick" is hilarious -- funnier the second and third time, especially if you see it with somebody else susceptible to its demented humor. Great performances all around -- and absolutely true to the spirit of the times.
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Summary: On second thought...
Review: I am a self-confessed Watergate buff so had to have this movie for my collection. It's cute but wearisome toward the end...like the filmmaker ran out of ideas. Dan Hedaya is genius...he salvages the movie from being completely horrid.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This was a wonderfully clever movie. The cast is terrific and they keep you laughing the entire time. You are able to watch this movie over and over and never become tired of it. There is no way not to love this movie!
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Summary: OK entry in farcical explanation of history sub-genre
Review: There are about three reasons to see this fairly enjoyable comedy. One is for the comedy itself. It is a whacky comedy based on the premise that the true identity of Watergate informant "Deep Throat" was actually two teenagers hired as White House dog-walkers! Such an outlandish premise occasionally produces something riotously funny, often something just stupid. This is a better-than-average example, closer to the former than to the latter. A second reason to see it is Dan Hedeya playing Nixon. Here's an actor that actually manages to resemble the one he is playing, much more than Anthony Hopkins did in NIXON. Hopkins is a talented actor, but I just don't think the right one to play Nixon. Despite the fact that we're comparing a farce with a serious movie here, Dan Hedeya's impression of that ill-fated chief executive is impressive enough that he might just be an all-too-overlooked possibility for portraying him in any kind of movie. The third main reason to see DICK is to see Kirsten Dunst the last time she looked like an angel. She showed the potential here to continue the promising career that her previous movie, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, should have launched. But instead after DICK she went on to the colossal misfire THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and then to the kind of ...teen "comedy" just serious enough to invite itself to be outdone by parodies, which it generally is. Too bad about Kirsten. We might hope she'll rise again, but meanwhile here's one of her more memorable lead roles to cherish.
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: What can I say about this movie? I like it. What I like about it are the funny scenes and characters, such as the dream Arlene (Michelle Williams) has about her and President Nixon, Betsy's (Kirsten Dunst) spaced-out older brother, and Arlene's declaration of love to Nixon on his hidden tape recorder. What I also like about the movie are the cool 70's music (Blue Swede's version of "Hooked on a Feeling," "Love's Theme," and "Lady Marmalade," among others) and Betsy and Arlene's idealistic liberal attitudes (which are in stark contrast to the attitudes of today's right-wing extremists). This movie also manages to mix comedy into a dark event that forever disillusioned Americans and made them lose trust in their elected leaders.
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Summary: One Scene in "Dick" Is Especially Noteworthy
Review: "Dick" is a wonderfully wry movie. All of the previous reviews have been so thorough, so I feel that there's nothing really more to add...but... I want to talk about one scene in the movie that struck me as especially poignant. Of all places, it's at the very end of the movie, when "Tricky Dick" is taking his last walk to the presidential helicopter. If you watch actor Dan Hedya closely, you'll see that at one instant, his face suddenly sets: He thrusts his jaw out - confidently, almost definantly. I found that to be most unexpected and captivating. But, what really lodges this scene in my memory is what happens after the helicopter's in flight, and we're looking at Tricky Dick through the whirlybird's window. Carly Simon's song, "You're So Vain" plays in the background. (Perfect timing.) All of a sudden, Nixon (Hedya) grasps his face in his hand, the picture of defeat, rejection, and exasperation. He sags like a limp rag. The game's over. A powerful scene. Funny thing is, this scene made me feel sorry for Nixon. Almost made him seem human (which he was). Maybe that's why it made an impact on me. On a related point, I recently watched Oliver Stone's "Nixon." Here's another instance where the director actually made me feel pity for Nixon. I never realized what a desperately difficult childhood Nixon faced: poverty, a hard-[nosed] father, a religiously fanatical (dare I say crazy?) mother, and a brother who died before his time of tuberculosis, and whom Nixon "replaced". Despite that, the overall impression Stone creates is that Nixon was a ..., and maybe he was. But that movie and "Dick" showed me a glimmer of Nixon's humanity. And, that was just a little of what made these two films memorable for me.
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Summary: BEST Movie Ever!
Review: I love this movie! I was flipping through my HBO channels and saw this name, and pressed INFO. Sounded great, so I watched it. After that, I fell in love with this movie! It is HYSTERICAL! I own it on DVD and I can never get enough!
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Summary: My favorite movie!!...
Review: When I first heard what this movie was about, I thought it sounded pretty stupid especially because I didn't know much about Watergate. But it really wasnt stupid!! Now it is my favorite movie ever. Ive seen it probably 100 times, and all the jokes are still as hilarious as they were when I first saw it. Some of them even seem to get funnier. I can practically recite ever word of the movie- so can my best friends who also love the movie. All of the actors and actresses are great and the whole movie is really well written. And, in a weird way, Dick kind of helped me in my History class when we were studying about Watergate because I knew the general idea. ...
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Summary: History repeats itself, first as Tragedy, then as Comedy
Review: Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams are two teenagers who accidently stumble upon the Watergate break-in and when this secret is reavealed to the powers that be during a White House tour the ditzy duo land jobs as White House Dog Walkers/Youth Advisors in lieu of hush money. This endlessly clever film provides a comic explaination for every thing from Deep Throat to Detente. Some jokes work, others don't, but a marvelous cast including Jim Breuer as John Dean, Saul Rubinek as Kissinger and Harry Shearer as a full throttle G. Gordon Liddy keep things interesting. The talented Dave Foley is badly miscast in the important role of H.R. Haldeman but Ryan Reynolds takes a great turn as the roomate of the Chief of Staff's son. This film probably would have been a smash in 1975 - or perhaps we were not yet ready to laugh out loud at Watergate. Sadly, now many of the references are lost on the uninitiated, but to those familiar with the events it will be hard to keep the smile off your face. I squeezed an extra star onto the rating of this film thanks to Dan Hedaya's hysterical scene of Nixon's final post-resignation walk to the helicopter.
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