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Citizen Cohn

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: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 34662
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 22, 1992

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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




Rating: - Pure fantasy
This movie is a complete joke. Whether you loved Cohn or whether you hated him, this movie is a farce ... Read More

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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 ... Read More

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Rating: - Brilliant Acting
James Woods gives a brilliant and very realistic performance. The story is told of Cohn's rise to power, ... Read More

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Rating: - Imaginative look at Roy Cohn
When Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy muscled his way onto a committee investigating communist subversives ... Read More

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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 ... Read More

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