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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WOODS,JAMES
EAN: 9780783118604
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0783118600
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 49595
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 22, 1992
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A dramatized account of Roy Cohn, a ruthless lawyer who prosecuted the Rosenbergs, worked as McCarthy's right-hand man and joined forces with the Kennedy's in their fight for civil rights.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
James Woods seems to find his most adventurous roles in television movies, particularly this made-for-HBO biography of the late lawyer and powerbroker Roy Cohn. A hallucinatory, impressionistic look at his career and life, the film is comprised of flashbacks by Cohn, who is seen dying of AIDS in 1988 in his New York hospital bed. Woods sinks his teeth deeply into the role of the shark-like Cohn, capturing his arrogance and his insecurity, both at his own Jewishness and his deeply closeted homosexuality, even as he rides Sen. Joe McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign for all it's worth. Woods even manages to make the deeply detestable Cohn vulnerable, if not sympathetic. A strong supporting cast includes Joe Don Baker as an amused and calculating McCarthy, but the film lives and breathes in Woods's flamboyantly nuanced embodiment of the whiny, manipulative Cohn. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pure fantasy
This movie is a complete joke. Whether you loved Cohn or whether you hated him, this movie is a farce from start to finish. I happened across the film when it was being shown on A&E one night and dispersed between parts of the film were several gentlemen in the studio who knew Cohn personally and who commented how inaccurate the film was and how it beared no reality to Cohn's real life.
Cohn's delusions of the Rosenberg's was absurd. Trying to garner sympathy for the traitors that ... Read More
Rating:  - James Wood's acting right up there with Pacino and DeNiro!
I saw this movie and was stunned regarding the raw acting talents of Mr. Woods...Boy!...He took my breath away, It was as if he lived the part....he made you forget you were watching a movie,that you were just sneaking a peek into the real life of a dysfunctonal human being.Speaking of Cohn....How come no one could see through all of his shananigans?...His lifestyle, lies, deceits,and disrespect of the court system.These manipulations should have given his oppositions a clue as to what they were dealing ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant Acting
James Woods gives a brilliant and very realistic performance. The story is told of Cohn's rise to power, his ruthless treatment of 'communists', and his slow but eventual downfall, first when he meets his match in a clever army lawyer, then in a woman he should have taken a little more seriously, and then in illness and death. The portrayal of the gassing of Ms. Rosenberg is not something that I will forget easily. And often, when the obsessions of this Cohn character get to be so unnerving, that you ... Read More
Rating: - Imaginative look at Roy Cohn
When Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy muscled his way onto a committee investigating communist subversives in the government, he brought along with him Roy Cohn. The son of a New York state judge and a brilliant lawyer in his own right, young Cohn saw McCarthy's committee as a way to increase his own social and political position. After all, this hotshot lawyer helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair, so a stint busting Reds in the government seemed a logical progression for him. After the collapse ... Read More
Rating: - A riveting movie
I don't know who they were giving oscars to in the year this movie came out but (as always) they fail to give them to the movie or the actors which deserve them and James Woods and the citisen Cohn sure deserved some oscar recognition for this masterpiece
For history buffs such as myself this movie is one of those you can watch again and again
5 stars out of 5
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