Thursday, October 04, 2012
WATERGATE REVISED
Today's movie was
in which the very young Kerstin Dunst and Michelle Williams are found to be the true Deep Throat and the supplier of many breakthroughs in the Watergate scandals.
Largely cast with SNL people this is a seriously funny film as opposed to silly, superficial or scatological. Amazing. The only "dirty" word joke is a running one based on the name in the title.
Dan Hedaya plays Nixon in a wonderful combination of close resemblance and nutty off centeredness.
I saw this when it came out and the current election stuff reminded me of it somehow.
It is really great now to see that both "girls" have grown up and become stars in their own right.
There is nothing heavy here. Worth a series of laughs and a bit of a time capsule.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
Labels: films
