Elvis & Nixon
In December 1970, rock 'n' roll icon Elvis Presley travels to the White House to request a meeting with President Richard Nixon. This film tells the untold true story behind this revealing, yet humorous moment in the Oval Office forever immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.
13 April 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 September 1963, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
26 July 1959, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
20 January 1987, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
18 December 1989, Long Beach, California, USA
3 July 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 July 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 December 1970
12 February 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
December 31, 2016
Spacey v Shannon is a fascinating showdown between two Hollywood heavyweights.
April 25, 2016
The dialogue sparkles with gems of historical allusion and perceptive asides, and the actors virtually sing it; the film plays like a whirling sociopolitical operetta.
April 22, 2016
Even when I didn't buy a word being said, I went with the flow. Why? Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey as Tricky Dick. Watching great actors swing for the fences is something special.
December 18, 2016
Elvis & Nixon, an otherwise good film, suffers from bad subtitle-itis.
February 27, 2017
When the plot juxtaposes Mr. Shannon's Elvis with professional Elvis impersonators at an airport lounge to reveal the man behind the caricature, the whole film just implodes.
April 28, 2016
The spectacle of Presley visiting Nixon's buttoned-down White House in his jeweled sunglasses, silk scarf, open shirt, and giant gold belt is inherently farcical, but Elvis & Nixon might have delivered more than dumb laughs.
April 22, 2016
As a surreal slice of history served up nearly half a century later, it feels oddly satisfying: A reminder not just of simpler times, but of all the other wild untold stories we may never know, just because no camera was there to capture them.
January 03, 2017
An amusing but slight snapshot of two men disconnected from their personas.
December 12, 2016
I don't know who decided to team Shannon and Spacey in a comedy called Elvis & Nixon, but whoever it was deserves credit for a masterstroke.
April 22, 2016
A sharper movie would have pushed this bizarre incident into psychological rawness, revealing a shared sense of paranoia. Breezy, comic and disposable, Elvis & Nixon is not that film.
December 13, 2016
It remains a naggingly slight experience: while its showbiz savvy should satiate the Elvis demographic, it feels at least a slight copout that a film where Nixon shares top billing should be so determinedly depoliticised.
April 22, 2016
What the movie, directed by Liza Johnson, lacks in factual material it replaces with whimsy and quirky humour, helped greatly by the casting of Michael Shannon as Presley and Kevin Spacey as Nixon.
