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Death of a President - Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Gabriel Range
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Death of a President follows the investigation of the fictional assassination of President George W Bush in October 2007. Combining real archival footage with a credible but fictional story, Death of a President presents a fascinating and thought-provoking political thriller. The film opens with the ferocious energy of a Tarantino or Oliver Stone movie, as frenetically edited archival footage thrusts us into a raging crowd of protesters, waiting for President Bush's procession. The President is portrayed as a sympathetic and likeable man - beloved by those close to him and charming to his followers. As the President gives a patriotic speech inside a hotel, the demonstrators' fury increases to the breaking point. The tension mounts until the horrible instant where the President is assassinated. After the assassination, the film shifts into the style of a mystery, and follows the FBI's hunt for the assassin. All the suspects are interviewed except one, the Syrian man who is convicted and put on death row. There is much circumstantial evidence against him. But is he guilty of the crime? Or does his being Middle Eastern provide a convenient excuse to label the death of the President as an Act of Terror?
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film drama USA President assassination documentary murder trial terror George W Bush
Persons of interest
- Hend Ayoub .... Zahra Abi Zikri
- Brian Boland .... Larry Stafford
- Becky Ann Baker .... Eleanor Drake
- Robert Mangiardi .... Greg Turner
- Jay Patterson .... Sam McCarthy
- Jay Whittaker .... Frank Molini
- Michael Reilly Burke .... Robert H Maguire
- James Urbaniak .... Dr James Pearn
- Neko Parham .... Casey Claybon
- Seena Jon .... Samir Masri
- Christian Stolte .... John Rucinski
- Chavez Ravine .... Marianne Claybon
- Patricia Buckley .... Dawn Newton
- Patrick Clear .... Adam Brock
- Malik Bader .... Jamal Abu Zikri
- Tony Dale .... Al Claybon
- George W Bush .... Himself (archive footage)
- Richard M Daley .... Himself (archive footage)
- Jong-Il Kim .... Himself (archive footage)
- Simon Finch .... Screenwriter
- Gabriel Range .... Screenwriter
- Gabriel Range .... Director
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- Death of a President official movie site
- Death of a President film production notes
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- Awards and film festivals:
- Adelaide Film Festival 2007: World Cinema
- Toronto International Film Festival 2006: Won: International Critics' Award (Gabriel Range)
- NB: Arabic and English language dialogue with English language subtitles
- See also The assassination of Richard Nixon
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Theatrical report
The worst aspect of Death of a President is not that it is a documentary of an attack on a living person but that it is fiction. If there is anyone who desperately needs to be assassinated, it's George W Bush Junior. Having got that off my chest, this film is a rational examination of one set of scenarios that might lead to the murder of the current president of the USA. Once you get over the death of the president it's like CSI if it occurred in the real world: interesting but not very flashy.
The drama movie Death of a President is directed by Gabriel Range and stars Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker.
Government security censorship classification
M (Moderate themes and violence, infrequent moderate coarse language)
Surveillance time
93 minutes (1:33 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 1 March 2007
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