Killing Kennedy
The film is based on a book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. It tells a story about the future president and his assassin. What the important events happen when John F. Kennedy wants to announce the next candidate?
1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia]
June 24, 1986 in Manchester, Connecticut, USA
12 January 1987, New York City, New York, USA
3 April 1982, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
November 14, 2013
Certainly a film shown during the anniversary of that sad time should make you feel something. This one doesn't.
November 12, 2013
You won't come away from it with any new answers, but it's a useful reminder of why the drama of that day has transfixed Americans for half a century.
November 12, 2013
There's nothing terribly wrong with Killing Kennedy. We just don't need the splashes of Hollywood in a story we already know way too well.
November 13, 2013
NatGeo really should have made Killing Kennedy a feature-length theatrical release, as the 95-minute run time makes the story feel too compressed.
February 27, 2014
Might just be a little too sober. At times, it's almost as unbelievable as the throw-everything-against-the-wall story that Oliver Stone tells in JFK.
November 13, 2013
Ginnifer Goodwin as Jackie and Michelle Trachtenberg as Oswald's wife acquit themselves well in this solidly watchable, quickly forgettable dramatic snapshot of indelible history.
November 12, 2013
The dialogue is painfully clumsy, and the pacing is pure Wikipedia.
November 14, 2013
While there's little surprise in how it unfurls, it will still reign as the best, most attractive re-enactment of the event on tis 50th anniversary - and there will still be a lot of them.
November 13, 2013
The pace and the performances carry the film.
November 12, 2013
Killing Kennedy easily could have been twice its length, the better to add both nuance and context. Instead it's a watchable film with many missing parts, a broadly drawn Classics Illustrated version of what happened and why.
November 13, 2013
By now, the beats of the Kennedy story are familiar to even the most casual student of history.
November 12, 2013
Killing Kennedy is subversive in a great way. The more the pathology of Oswald is developed...the more it resembles what propels many conspiracy theorists.
