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JFK

Cast

Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon View All


Crew

Oliver Stone (Screenplay), Oliver Stone (Director), Zachary Sklar (Screenplay) View All

Release: Dec. 20th, 1991
Runtime: 3 hours, 9 minutes
This acclaimed Oliver Stone drama presents the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. When Garrison begins to doubt conventional thinking on the murder, he faces government resistance, and, after the killing of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, he closes the case. Later, however, Garrison reopens the investigation, finding evidence of an extensive conspiracy behind...
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JayDee
Film Trivia Snippets - In Bull Durham, released three years earlier, Kevin Costner's character has a large monologue about what he believes in, and actually states that I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone; the exact opposite stance taken by his character in JFK.
Iroquois
JFK conspiracy theories always were kind of interesting and even though Stone's film emerges as a sort of docudrama that doesn't seem particularly concerned with its characters and their arcs so much as being an epic big-screen adaptation of Garrison's investigative report.
Osiris
But as a film, as a form of media entertainment, it's unfortunately draggy and overstuffed, resulting in the dilution of otherwise heartbreaking scenes that reminiscent on the great loss the American people suffered, the loss not being just a literal loss of a great man and a great (but flawed) pres....
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