Posted on 09/12/2017 8:43:40 AM PDT by pabianice
Over the years, a great many actors have taken a turn at playing one of the Kennedy brothers (in made-for-TV movies, on “Saturday Night Live,” in big-screen historical dramas). The vast majority of these performances have been mediocre, a handful have been quite good, and a few have been memorable — like Bruce Greenwood’s cuttingly terse and commanding JFK in the Cuban Missile Crisis drama “Thirteen Days,” or Peter Sarsgaard’s tender and battle-scarred Robert F. Kennedy in “Jackie.” To that short list of singular and superb Kennedy performances, we can now add the Australian actor Jason Clarke’s portrayal of Edward M. Kennedy in “Chappaquiddick.”
Clarke, with a bit of makeup, looks the part to an astonishing degree: the squint, the hawkish profile, the wedge of hair combed gently over from the left side, the lips that hang slightly open as if pondering a question, giving Kennedy an aura that’s more tentative, less forceful than that of his two legendary older brothers. Clarke also nails the voice — not just the familiar Boston accent but the dry understatement of it. He inhabits Ted Kennedy with the softly halting charm of an aging preppie who can seize up with self-doubt, but who still treats the world as his oyster.
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It took 40 years for the Left to start to turn against the Kennedys and reveal their secrets.
It makes sense, because in that time, any key political figures with a direct stake in the narrative are already dead
So it will take that long to know Obama’s crimes as well. I hope I’m still alive to read about them all.
Of course, near the end, the reviewer needs to throw it: Hello, Donald Trump! He’s an incompetent bully, but his middle name might be “Liberal Karma.”
No reason at all, really, but Liberals have to be Liberals.
I want to see Obama’s passport file and college records. History will eventually find out what he is hiding.
I’ll bet I’ve seen the black and white documentary about the Milgram experiment five or six times.
The American Press confirms that experiment over and over.
They will do whatever the boss tells them to do.
The boss told them to go easy on Ted Kennedy.
But the damage is already done
I have no doubt he applied to Occidental and Columbia as a foreign student.
I have no doubt he applied to Occidental and Columbia as a foreign student.
Shows the real truth about what happened but doesn’t document the several times he was stopped for driving alcoholed up in the years following showing he had no hint of remorse
A crisis JFK caused by and ended up with Castro in power forever after
The man who would be president after leaving a woman to die.
Yeah, over-inflating Kenny O'Donnell's role sort of ruined the movie for me. I can't see him pushing JFK around as much as he did in the movie. It was like he was the "real" president. I did like the weaselly portrayal of Robert McNamara and both Kennedy brothers were good.
I really prefer the 70's TV version called The Missiles of October. William Devane made a great JFK, and Ken O'Donnell came off as the butt-boy he probably was.
True story - Ted Kennedy came to Texas to stump for a democrat running for governor. They went to a nursing home with some media. As Teddie began to speak the microphone acted like it was dead. They checked. Someone had unplugged it. Then he began to speak again and all of a sudden all these oldsters began to bang their silverware on their plates.
It was quite poetic that even these old people, most of which did not have all of their mental faculties, nonetheless they could smell a rat. And they let him know it.
Any dramatic scenes where a girl screams for her life while trapped underwater in a car?
The poor girl would probably be alive it is was light out- half the car was out of the water and she would have been able to see daylight through the upside down windows, instead of desperately trying to stay alive in the air pocket.
Unless she was already unconscious
“I really prefer the 70’s TV version called The Missiles of October.”
Yes, that was great. I think it’s available on youtube.
This is a good movie for young people to see. They probably never heard of this despicable event. My daughter saw something about it on tv & she was SHOCKED. I should buy it & pass it around to the family.
Thanks for posting this. Just shared it on FB.
Absolutely great!!
I thought William DeVane was great as JFK.
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