The Assassination of Richard Nixon

The true story of a man who, on February 22, 1974, was thwarted from an ambitious plan for political assassination provides the basis for this striking psychological drama. Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a salesman for an office-supply company whose life is slowly beginning to unravel. Bicke's job is ...more

The Assassination of Richard Nixon is not really about Sam Bicke's little-known, confused, and wildly unsuccessful plan to actually assassinate Richard Nixon in early 1974. It's more about the psychology of a man driven to such acts -- and what specifically about America makes unstable men like Bicke feel pressured to take such incoherently desperate measures. Far more than a political or action thriller (though there's a little of that too, at the very end), it's the portrait of a loser who ...more