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JFK  1991

JFK
(1991, United States)

Language: English

Locations: the story takes place in DallasTexasUnited States
the story takes place in New OrleansLouisianaUnited States




In November 1963, the United States president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald is caught soon after and charged with the political murder. While being prepared to be transported to another location, Oswald is shot dead by a nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. Three years later, the Louisiana district attorney, Jim Garrison, is astonished by how sloppy the official investigation was when the Warren Report is published. Even though the US president was the victim, the Warren Commission seemed to just slide on the surface of the case without trying to dig deeper and following some of the leads. Even though the assassination took place in Texas, there were New Orleans figures linked to the case, so Garrison decides to commence his own investigation, at least within his authority. From the beginning, he finds the evidence surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald to be questionable, and the single shooter theory promoted by the Warren Report impossible to defend.

A masterpiece from Oliver Stone. No matter if you share his views on the case or not, this film will make you question your own beliefs. Even though it is basically a chamber drama, as the plot unfolds, the atmosphere becomes darker and more tense. The overtones of the film are what many people felt for a long time, but no one was saying out loud - that the whole investigation after the JFK assassination was just a sham to cover the underlying political intrigues. Some evidence was misrepresented, some leads were ignored, just like someone was trying to make all the details fit the official single shooter version of events. This film is worth knowing, even if you do not share the theory it represents.




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Creators of JFK

Oliver Stone films

director


Oliver Stone films

screenplay


Zachary Sklar films

screenplay


Jim Garrison films

screenplay


Jim Marrs films

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Cast of JFK

Kevin Costner films
as Jim Garrison

Joe Pesci films
as David Ferrie

Tommy Lee Jones films
as Clay Shaw

Gary Oldman films
as Lee Harvey Oswald

Brian Doyle-Murray films
as Jack Ruby

Jay O Sanders films
as Lou Ivon

Edward Asner films
as Guy Bannister

Jack Lemmon films
as Jack Martin

Sissy Spacek films
as Liz Garrison

Wayne Knight films
as Numa Bertel

Michael Rooker films
as Bill Broussard

Laurie Metcalf films
as Susie Cox

Walter Matthau films
as Senator Long

John Candy films
as Dean Andrews

Kevin Bacon films
as Willie O?Keefe

Donald Sutherland films
as X


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