1984 | United States | Fiction

Secret Honor

  • English English 90 mins
  • Director | Robert Altman
  • Writer | Donald Freed, Arnold M. Stone
  • Producer | Robert Altman

STATUS: Released

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Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. He is surrounded by the silent portraits of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kissinger, and his mother, as he resurrects his past in a passionate attempt to defend himself and his political legacy. Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.

Paranoia Regret Power Isolation Confession
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The Criterion Collection
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