Dick

Truly epic. The best performance you’ve ever seen from k duntst and Michelle W. Hello dolly

I remember watching this in the 90s and I love it! A bunch of SNL alumni, and one from SC. I would recommend Dick to anyone.

I teach Journalism in high school, and have long wanted a good movie to show the complexity and craziness and drama of Watergate."All the President's Men" is not it. "Dick" definitely is."All the President's Men" is dull and opaque and gets lost in minutiae--it's hard to follow even for me, and I know oceans about Watergate--so it is completely lost on the students. Worse still, it's undramatic. It has a plodding pace and dull characters."Dick" is the opposite. It was a stroke of genius to treat Watergate as a comedy, and better yet, a teen comedy.It was another stroke of genius to make the clueless teen heroines "Deep Throat"--the mysterious informant who kept feeding Woodward and Bernstein an unending supply of truth about Nixon's and all his advisers' involvement. ("Dick" was made in 1999; the actual identity of Deep Throat was not revealed till 2005.)And it was perhaps the crowning stroke of genius to provide Nixon with marijuana cookies as the spark behind several of his better policies--ending the Vietnam war, the nuclear weapons treaty with Brezhnev, etc.(Side note. Grace Slick, in her autobiography, tells how Julie, Nixon's daughter, invited Slick to the White House for some function, because Julie and Slick had gone to the same college. Slick decided to go, and slip Tricky Dick some LSD. This was a brilliant plan, but fortunately did not succeed. The thought of Dick's head on acid and his finger on the Bomb is not a pretty one.)"Dick" has wonderful touches. Hedaya is perfect as Nixon--looks, voice, evil, paranoia. It is lovely that he can't remember his daughters' names. The actors playing Haldeman, Kissinger, Dean, et al. are also good. The episodes involving the lost 18 minutes of tape are priceless.The movie is dumb but extremely likable. It gets the songs, the clothes, the slogans, the silliness and fun of the early 70s just right. Plus, it's actually quite educational.

This is the perfect movie if you’re in a silly mood. Two high school girls take down Nixon. It’s ridiculous but creative. It’s brilliantly dumb in my opinion. I had a great laugh.

Truly one of the funniest movies.Especially for us old timers who were around during the Watergate days and early drug days, you baby boomers know..It is a bit sexist to say that the high school girls are a caricature of the women of the '70s but certainly not an insult to those great times and kids.With crushes and being pseudo hippies at times, wearing the proper costume was part of the fun.The Woodward and Bernstein characters are buffoons although not in real life but I'm sure they don't mind the fun that this movie has with them.The depiction of President Nixon is hilarious if not realistic.

I was just 12 when the Watergate scandal was occurring so didn't really realize what was happening at that time. But watching this made me laugh so hard and the costumes and cars and music brought the early seventies back to me. A fun take on a time in history. And Betsy and Arlene played the roll of fifteen year old girls perfectly and with wonderful chemistry. Loved the movie.

Funny spoof on Watergate. An enjoyable time trip. No problems w/ delivery.

This movie provides a possible (if not plausible) explanation for the source of the Watergate scandal's "Deep Throat", in a manner that is hilarious, while taking you back to the 70's in a nostalgic walk down memory lane. I bought several copies to share with family/friends... and they loved it too! Dan Hedaya's Richard Nixon is amazingly spot-on, and the actors portraying your favorite villains from the Nixon administration perform admirable impressions of Haldeman (Dave Foley), Liddy (Harry Shearer) and Dean (Breuer) ... not to mention Saul Rubinek's brilliant Henry Kissinger! Top it off with Will Ferrell playing a parody of Bob Woodward in constant battle with his bud, Bernstein (McCulloch), and excellent performances from Kirsten Dunst (well before her Spiderman fame), and Dawson's Creek's Michelle Williams as the teenage sources of Tricky Dick's downfall, and you have the recipe for a FUNtastic movie night! Take it all with a grain of salt, and enjoy poking fun at a historical mystery!!

Viel habe ich nicht erwartet, doch der Film war viel besser, als ich erhofft hatte.

merci

ウォーターゲート事件の陰謀を暴き、ニクソン大統領を辞任に追い込んだのは、なんと２人の女子高生だった！というナンセンス・コメディー。主演は『チアーズ！』のキルスティン・ダンストと『ドーソンズ・クリーク』のミシェル・ウィリアムズ。愛称ディック（男性器の意味アリ）ことリチャード・ニクソン大統領の熱狂的ファンになってしまった少女２人が、ホワイトハウスを舞台に巻き起こす珍騒動の数々を、下品で危険なギャグ満載で描く。日本公開が見送られてしまったのがつくづく惜しい快作。

Film un peu niché mais très drôle.

« Dick » est une comédie d'Andrew Flemming, aussi farfelue que drôle et réussie. Le film revisite le scandale du Watergate de fond en comble, en fonction d'une thèse particulièrement saugrenue : deux adolescentes, dont l'une habite dans l'immeuble Watergate, tombent fortuitement nez à nez avec le chef des poseurs de micro. (« plumbers »). Elles le retrouvent par hasard, lors d'une visite scolaire à la Maison Blanche. Pour les convaincre de ne pas dire ce qu'elles savent (bien qu'elles ne réalisent pas vraiment elles même ce qu'elles savent) le président Nixon et son équipe leur propose le poste de « promeneuses officielles du chien du Président », qu'elles acceptent avec fierté. Devenue des habituées de la Maison Blanche, elles influencent les accords Nixon-Brejnev en faisant gouter au président des cookies accidentellement parfumée à la marijuana. Découvrant plus tard combien Nixon est dur avec son chien et souvent grossier, elles décident de venger l'animal en appelant le Washington Post pour transmettre un enregistrement subtilisé au président. Elle dévoile ainsi un secret d'état, sans s'en rendre compte, en utilisant le désormais célèbre pseudonyme de « gorge profonde », inspiré par les activités du frère de l'une d'elle. On connait la suite, le président Nixon devra bientôt démissionner !Le plus intéressant avec ce film, est que le scénario parvient à rend parfaitement crédible une histoire pourtant tirée par les cheveux. Derrière un humour assez déjanté, le film nous replonge savoureusement dans les Etats-Unis des années 1970 et pose de bonnes questions sur les réalités de la démocratie américaine. Den Hedaya est un Nixon plus vrai que nature. Michelle Williams et Kirsten Dunst, alors peu connues, sont particulièrement drôles dans leurs rôles d'ado., tout comme Bruce McCulloch et Will Ferrell dans les rôles des deux journalistes du W.P., Bernstein et Woodward. Le mélange improbable entre teen-movie et comédie politique donne ici toute la mesure de son originalité.