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Plot Summary
Winner of the International Critics' Prize at the Toronto Film Festival, Death of a President is conceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on a monstrous and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The "documentary" artfully combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews presented in a respectful and dignified manner. The film doesn't advocate violence; rather, it shows its' pernicious effects. It is exciting and questioning, and it offers viewers a riveting story -- creating a provocative political thriller that reveals larger truths.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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37%- Reviews Counted: 100
- Fresh: 37
- Rotten: 63
- Average Rating: 5.3/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: The fact of the Bush years far outdoes Range's dull fiction. The only thing that shook me was the idea of Cheney as president. Now that is the stuff of nightmares.
Rotten: Even people who think George W. Bush is the worst American-made disaster since President James Buchanan will have no trouble recognizing Death of a President for the lousy thing it is.
Rotten: D.O.A.P. offers no information, insights or ideas that a couple of political science majors couldn't come up with while hanging out between classes.
Fresh: To the credit of Range and Simon Finch, with whom he wrote the screenplay, it makes its point and poses its moral questions without speeches or quotation marks.
Customer Reviews
Utterly tasteless
Are you serious?! A movie about the potential assassination of the then-incumbent President?! You Hollywood leftist loonies need to really take a step back and evaluate your level of common decency and judgement. I will assume a sequel featuring Barack Obama will not be coming out anytime soon...
Its not for ANYONES side!!
Rather it demonstrates the sadness this nation will once again experience if we arent careful!
Violence and assasination are never justifiable in a true civilized nation!
Thank God we have Obama now so that our country is once again the beacon!!
But sadly there are nuts who want him hurt!
So this film is still relevant and a must see!
Quit your whining
You right wing nutjobs, this is a good movie. Stop complaining just because the president that just happened to be in office when this film was made was a republican!!!
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