All the President's Men

All the President's Men (1976) starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook. Redford and Hoffman play Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal open. The movie is a combination newspaper procedural, detective story and thriller, and my only criticism is that I wanted to see the story play out all the way. Instead, we get the initial research that the reporters did, followed by a quick wrap-up at the end of the film in which a teletype prints out all the results of their efforts. It's a pretty effective ending, but the feeling I got was that the filmmakers just ran out of time and went for the quick wrap-up. Still, a very intense, involving film. (Subtitles in English are available, as well as closed captions for the hearing-impaired.) Grade: A-