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W. (Widescreen) by Oliver Stone
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Colin Hanks, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, Josh Brolin, Toby Jones Director: Oliver Stone Brand: BROLIN,JOSH Producer: Albert Yeung Producer: Bill Block Producer: Christopher Mapp Producer: David Whealy Producer: Elliot Ferwerda Producer: Eric Kopeloff Writer: Stanley Weiser DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled) Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 129 minutes DVD Release Date: 2009-02-10 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of W. (Widescreen)Movie Review: Pointing at others Summary: 3 StarsAll movie attempts to present Bush Jr. as a cheap shadow of his daddy, Bush Sr., look mostly like the funny bubbling of own kid nasty sometimes but always "own bastard".
Oliver Stone's speculations of Iraq and Afghanistan wars would much more convincingly sound if for start the predominant majority of American voters reject, once and forever, a non-stoppable usage of their personal cars in big cities to ease dependence on energy sources well feeding terrorists back on the American soil de-facto absorbing increasingly for "humanitarian reasons" new waves of terror breeding seed.
Summary of W. (Widescreen) Genre: Drama Rating: PG13 Release Date: 10-FEB-2009 Media Type: DVD Oliver Stone's W. is similar to his other movies about American presidents (JFK, Nixon), which is to say these films are much more about Stone's imagined versions of reported events than they are alleged reenactments. As such, W. is Stone's case for what he sees as the absurdity of George W. Bush's ascendance to the White House and especially the arrogant blunder of the Iraq War. Josh Brolin is very good as the miscreant son of George H. W. Bush (James Cromwell), Vice President to Ronald Reagan and 41st president of the United States. Adrift in a sea of booze and squandered opportunities, the younger Bush is largely driven by a need for his disapproving father's love and respect, which never truly arrives. Becoming a hatchet man for Bush Sr.'s administration, "W" (as his wife, Laura--played by Elizabeth Banks--call him) meets Karl Rove (Toby Jones) and heads toward the Texas governorship, despite his father's preference that the more golden son, Jeb, get all the family's support in his Florida gubernatorial bid. Told in broken chronology, W. focuses on Bush's post-9/11 path to waging a "preventive war" in Iraq despite no hard evidence of weapons of mass destruction to justify it. The major players in W's administration--Rove, Colin Powell (Jeffrey Wright), Condoleeza Rice (Thandie Newton), and especially Dick Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss)--all participate in closed meetings that look and sound like every investigative account by the New York Times or Bob Woodward about the administration's inner workings leading up to the war. Much of this is quite fascinating if a little weird (Newton's performance is indeed strange), but the drama is often powerful, particularly around Powell's resistance to the rising tide for a supposedly slam-dunk war. A number of the film's key performances, besides Brolin's, are very strong, especially Cromwell, Jones, Wright, Dreyfuss and Bruce McGill as George Tenet. --Tom Keogh
Beyond W. on DVD  Family of Secrets the book |  W. the Soundtrack |  W. the Original Motion Picture Score | Stills from W. (click for larger image)
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