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Release Date
• USA: Dec 20, 1991
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 3, 1997
Budget $40,000,000
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language. (also 1992 edited version)
Running Time
3 hours, 9 minutes
Country USA, France
Production Companies
Alcor Films, Camelot, Canal+, Ixtlan Corporation, Regency Enterprises, Warner Bros. Pictures
Studio Alcor Films, Canal Plus, Ixtlan Corporation, Regency Enterprises, Warner Brothers
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• JFK (1991)
• Project X
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Murder, Betrayal, Military, Political, Gay/Lesbian, Period Piece, Gangsters, Biography, Terrorism, Tragedy, Prison, Courtroom, Buddies, Investigation
Tagline: The Story That Won't Go Away
Plot: Covers the period from 1963 to 1968; Produced and released in 1991.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 record. Combining interviews with an analysis of the physical evidence, Garrison's team posits the existence of a conspiracy to kill the president. A mysterious Col. X (Donald Sutherland) implies the orchestration
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| Directed by |
Oliver Stone
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John Williams
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