Death of a President R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 3, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Becky Ann Baker, Christian Stolte, Neko Parham, Tony Dale, Robert Mangiardi, Jay Patterson, Hend Ayoub, James Urbaniak, Seena Jon, Michael Reilly Burke & Brian Boland | |
Featured: | George W. Bush | |
Directed by | Gabriel Range | |
Edited by | Brand Thumim | |
Music by | Richard Harvey | |
Screenwriting by | Simon Finch & Gabriel Range | |
Cinematography by | Graham Smith | |
Produced by | Simon Finch, Ed Guiney & Gabrielle Range | |
Executive Production by | Robin Gutch |
Entertainment Reviews:
Easily the year's most useless picture
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CinePassion
[A] provocation....It strikes the urgent, open-eyed tone of a FRONTLINE investigative report....The film's atmosphere of plausibility is its most devious trick... -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1.5/4 --
...even the extras are unconvincing...
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Reel Film Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- Deliberately confrontational, though communicated with even-keeled clarity rather than hysteria...
Total Film
What's missing is shapeliness, suspense, narrative cunning, visual flair -- in short, art. Are we really to believe that a network of the future would broadcast such a barbiturate?
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: B --
Range comes about these issues in a provocative way, but they're still worth discussing, aren't they?
AV Club
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Death of a President is thought-provoking, but as much for 'how'd they do that?' as for its ideas.
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Seattle Times
Product Description:
British director Gabriel Range (THE DAY BRITAIN STOPPED) imagines the aftereffects of the assassination of George W. Bush in this fictional documentary ("mockumentary" seems too playful a word for this relentlessly taut film) set in 2008. Range uses real news footage, staged scenes (shot on high-res video but cleverly doctored to resemble grainy satellite news images and security-camera tapes), and phony talking-head interviews to create a compelling and believable thriller for the CNN generation. He even adds some whodunit elements, along with philosophical musings about post-9/11 civil liberties, the psychological effects of war, and the multilayered impact that such a murder would have on the world.
What makes Range's story so believable--in addition to the excellent performances by the "interviewees" playing FBI agents, beat cops, advisors, and suspects--is the wide scope of political and personal viewpoints given equal voice. The president is seen as neither a hero nor a villain; his advisors and security team are loyal and even-keeled but not without their own irrational prejudices, and the assassin's motives, while not condoned, are made to seem understandable. This is a deeply compassionate look at a fictional situation that could very well become a reality--rather than lulling viewers with escapism, Range asks them to consider the consequences of the events unfolding all around them.
What makes Range's story so believable--in addition to the excellent performances by the "interviewees" playing FBI agents, beat cops, advisors, and suspects--is the wide scope of political and personal viewpoints given equal voice. The president is seen as neither a hero nor a villain; his advisors and security team are loyal and even-keeled but not without their own irrational prejudices, and the assassin's motives, while not condoned, are made to seem understandable. This is a deeply compassionate look at a fictional situation that could very well become a reality--rather than lulling viewers with escapism, Range asks them to consider the consequences of the events unfolding all around them.
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