All The President's Men

1976 • 138 minutes

About this movie

Two reporters trail the Watergate burglary to the doorstep of the White House. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star. Three Academy Awards(R) went to this true suspenseful story. MPAA Rating: NOTRATED (c) 1976 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

It's an important movie (so is the book). I don't think it's great by movie standards but it's well done and gets the point across. The point: A set of dirty tricks involving the White House and Nixon that are illegal and frightening. I'm glad it was found out and dealt with. But comparison to today's America it's only a minnow in a sea of infamy. I just hope there are folks brave enough to deal with today's problems like there were like Woodward and Bernstein because I'm not sure we can get past today's problems and have a country we refer to as "America".

Every ten years or so I give this cluttered classic another whirl. I'm a Pakula fan and a quasi journalist. I'm not ashamed to admit that I can't understand a thing. Not even with subtitles. Hoffman's frenzied earnestness, so endearing in Rainman, is a major irritant in this ouevre - blowing imaginary tranquilizer darts at the screen helps. If you're watching with friends, knock back a shot every time Dustin looks like he desperately needs to pee. You won't stay sober long. This movie simply has too many words, too many minutes, and too much integrity. Probity is boring...that's why Oliver Stone was invented.

November 22, 2012 -- I gave this movie 5 stars, but did not write any comments. Yet here I am again, August 17, 2013, returning to view the movie a second time. Maybe this is my third or fourth, I don't remember. I'll have to gather my thoughts to give a lucid review, so I'll have to leave it at this, for now. In the meantime, I wonder if I'll discover details I missed before? One thing I can say: watch and re-watch? It's that good. The movie was up for 8 Oscars, for which it won four. Also while going through this stage, the movie was up for 10 BAFTA's but didn't leave with one. That's okay, because that much recognition still acknowledges the caliber of this film.