Frost/Nixon: A dramatic film based on an interview

Frost/Nixon: A dramatic film based on an interview

Frost/Nixon is a 2008 historical drama film based on the 2006 play by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film was directed by Ron Howard and produced for Universal Pictures by Howard and Brian Grazer.

A series of news reports document the role of Richard Nixon in the 1972 Watergate scandal, prior to his 1974 resignation speech. Meanwhile, David Frost has finished recording an episode of his talk show in Australia and watches on television as Nixon leaves
the White House.

A few weeks later in the London Weekend Television (LWT) central office, Frost discusses the possibility of an interview with his producer and friend, John Birt. When Frost mentions Nixon as the subject, Birt doubts that Nixon would be willing to talk to
Frost. Frost then tells Birt that 400 million people watched President Nixon’s resignation on live television.

Nixon is recovering from phlebitis at La Casa Pacifica in San Clemente, California. He is discussing his memoirs with literary agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar, who tells the former president of a request by Frost to conduct an interview with an offer of $500,000;
only after Lazar contacts Frost is the offer increased to $600,000. Lazar contacts Frost to inform him that Nixon is interested, so Frost and Birt fly to California to meet with Nixon.

While on the plane, Frost meets Caroline Cushing, with whom he soon becomes infatuated and begins a relationship. At La Casa Pacifica, Frost makes the first partial payment of $200,000. However, Nixon’s post-presidential chief of staff, Jack Brennan, expresses
doubts that Frost will be able to pay the entire amount.

Frost tries to sell the interviews to the U.S. broadcast networks, but they all turn him down. Frost decides to finance the project with private money and syndicate the broadcast of four interviews. He hires two investigators – Bob Zelnick and James Reston
Jr. – to dig for information along with Birt, focusing on Watergate.

During the research process, Reston mentions a lead in the Federal Courthouse in Washington that he thinks he can lock down with a week of work, but Frost decides against it…..

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