All the President's Men

All the President's Men1976

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 157 minutes

It helps to have one of history's greatest scoops as your factual inspiration, but journalism thrillers just don't get any better than All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are perfectly matched as (respectively) Washington Post… more »



Foreign editor:
I don't think either Metropolitan or National should cover the story. I don't think we should cover the story, period.

Bradlee:
Go on.

Foreign editor:
It's not that we're using unnamed sources that bothers me, or that everything we print the White House denies, or that almost no other papers are reprinting our stuff.

Simons:
What then?

Foreign editor:
I don't believe the goddamn story, Howard, it doesn't make sense.

Bradlee:
It will, it just hasn't bottomed out yet, give it time.

Foreign editor:
Ben, Jesus, there are over two thousand reporters in this town, are there five on Watergate? Where did we suddenly get all this wisdom?

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