An intelligent change-of-pace for director Ron Howard after The Da Vinci Code. The film is based on the events leading up to the four interviews conducted by British talk show host, David Frost, with Richard Nixon, as well as the interviews themselves. Despite Nixon's obvious culpability in crimes committed while he occupied the Oval Office, there is something tragic, on an epic scale, about the disgraced president. His final admissions of responsibility and his expressions of sorrow are almost painful to watch. Frank Langella gives a towering performance that transcends a mere imitation in much the same way that Helen Mirren played Elizabeth II in The Queen. Langella is really that good.
