Beginning in 1973 with Watergate, Oliver Stone's technically
ambitious film uses a series of flashbacks to portray Richard Nixon's
early life and political career. Much ground is covered - from his
poverty-stricken Quaker upbringing, to his life as a husband and
father, and his position as one of the most significant political
figures of the 20th century. Joan Allen's absorbing, vivid, and
multi-dimensional portray of Pat Nixon, a woman struggling to live
with and be supportive to a deceitful and difficult man, justly earned
her an Oscar nomination.
