Sticky Dick; the Assassination of Richard Nixon Just Doesn't Hold Together.

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I realize it's hardly fair to compare every movie--particularly one made by a first-timer--to a landmark like Taxi Driver. But frankly, if you're willing to work the same material, and if you're going to drop this many allusions, you'd better be ready to face the consequences.

He's got a laughable business plan for a mobile tire store on a broken-down bus, and he claims he can't get a loan because his partner's black. (Don Cheadle inhabits this role with such relaxed ease, you've gotta wonder how these two ever became friends in the first place.)

Divorced [Bicke]'s got just as many excuses for why his ex-wife won't let him see his kids. Naomi Watts plays the ex, wearing the kind of dark, ugly wig that glamorous actresses wear when they're making an effort to be unglamorous--and still you have no idea why she'd ever even hang out with this creep, let alone bear his children.

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Sticky Dick; the Assassination of Richard Nixon Just Doesn't Hold Together.

Immortalized in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, Samuel Byck was a peculiar footnote to history. Consumed by the then-novel idea of hijacking an airplane and crashing it into the White House--while sending audiotapes of his demented rant...

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