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JFK

JFK

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Key Information
Directors: Oliver Stone
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones
Actors: Sissy Spacek
Genre: Dramas
Subgenre: Recommended · Justice · Murder · Assassination · Betrayal · Conspiracy Theories · Essential Cinema
MPAA Rating: R (MPAA)
Available Formats: VHS: Oliver Stone Collection
UPC: 085391853435
Release Date: 1991
Running Time: 3hr 26min
Languages
Original Language: English
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: Ultimate Collector's Edition
Release Company: Warner Home Video (November 11, 2008)
UPC: 883929027231
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS, 3hr 9min
Release Company: Movies Unlimited (May 20, 1992)
Credits
Screenwriter: Zachary Sklar
Professional Reviews
: (01/23/1992, p.48-9, Peter Travers): "...Tremendously exciting....JFK is riveting..."
Quotes from the Movie
: "Let justice be done though the heavens fall."--Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner)
More Information
Details: Oliver Stone's self-proclaimed "countermyth," JFK mocks the doubtful veracity of the Warren Commission's findings on the Kennedy assassination and summarizes some of the myriad theories that have been proposed in its contest. Focusing on the investigation by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) into the activities of the FBI and other government agencies as well as their attempted cover-ups, Stone weaves fact and speculation into a compelling argument for the reopening of the case files. Garrison begins to investigate local links to the assassination, including Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones), David Ferrie (Joe Pesci), Guy Bannister (Ed Asner), Perry Russo (Kevin Bacon), and Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary Oldman). When the accounts of Ferrie, Russo, and others almost invariably diverge from the FBI versions of events, Garrison begins to suspect a cover-up. Widening his net, he interviews many of the original assassination witnesses and again finds little that coincides with the government's re...
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