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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Watch With Your Teen Movie Release: 1976 DVD Release: 10/29/1997 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 19 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Drama, Docudrama, Political Drama, Paranoid Thriller See Also: All the President's Men

Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex, green Washington Post reporters/rivals Woodward (Robert Redford, who also exec produced) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) stumble on a possible connection between the burglars and a White House staffer. With the circumspect approval of executive editor Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards), the pair digs deeper. Aided by a guilt-ridden turncoat bookkeeper (Jane Alexander) and the vital if cryptic guidance of Woodward's mystery source, Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook), Woodward and Bernstein "follow the money" all the way to the top of the Nixon administration. Despite Deep Throat's warnings that their lives are in danger, and the reluctance of older Post editors, Woodward and Bernstein are determined to get out the story of the crime and its presidential cover-up. Once Bradlee is convinced, the final teletype impassively taps out the historically explosive results. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Dustin Hoffman - Carl Bernstein
Robert Redford - Bob Woodward
Jack Warden - Harry Rosenfeld
Martin Balsam - Howard Simons
Hal Holbrook - Deep Throat
Jason Robards, Jr. - Ben Bradlee

This 1997 Warner release came out pretty early on the DVD timeline, and while it comes in an anamorphic widescreen transfer that is a vast improvement over the old video release, the images come out grainy when compared to the original film print. Considering that Gordon Willis is easily one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, the transfer should be cleaned up in the future. Thankfully, the Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo audio track is much cleaner and does not need any perceivable remastering. The DVD comes with a few extras, but they really are not very meaningful. Since Alan J. Pakula was killed in a horrible auto accident in 1998, there is, sadly, no chance for a director commentary track in the future. Star Robert Redford (who also co-produced the project) and screenwriter William Goldman are both good storytellers who could offer meaningful insights into the production on a future DVD re-release. ~ Nick Dedina, All Movie Guide