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JFK is a 1991 American historical drama and crime film directed by Oliver Stone. The cast includes Kevin Costner, Joe Pesci, Gary Oldman, and Tommy Lee Jones, with Martin Sheen serving as narrator. The screenplay was written by Jim Marrs, Jim Garrison, and Oliver Stone, while John Williams composed the score. Robert Richardson was the director of photography, and Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia edited the film. Production was handled by Regency Enterprises, StudioCanal, and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
The narrative is set in New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Dallas, and it focuses on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Filming took place in New Orleans. The film has a runtime of 189 minutes and was released on December 20, 1991. It received a budget of 40,000,000 and generated revenue of 205,405,498.
JFK was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Cinematography. It won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing, as well as the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film. The film holds an IMDb rating of 8.0 based on 182,086 votes and a TMDb average of 7.6 from 2,409 votes.
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7.6Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Cast
- Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison
- Tommy Lee Jones as Clay Shaw
- Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald
- Kevin Bacon as Willie O'Keefe
- Michael Rooker as Bill Broussard
- Jack Lemmon as Jack Martin
Themes
- vietnam war
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- assassination
- usa president
- government
- politics
- homophobia
- texas
- new orleans, louisiana
- investigation
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Oliver Stone
- Screenplay by
- Oliver Stone Zachary Sklar
- Based on
- On the Trail of the Assassins , by Jim Garrison , Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy , by Jim Marrs
- Produced by
- A. Kitman Ho Oliver Stone
- Starring
- Kevin Costner Kevin Bacon Tommy Lee Jones Laurie Metcalf Gary Oldman Michael Rooker Jay O. Sanders Sissy Spacek
- Cinematography
- Robert Richardson
- Edited by
- Joe Hutshing , Pietro Scalia
- Music by
- John Williams
- Production companies
- Le Studio Canal+ , Regency Enterprises , Alcor Films Ixtlan Corporation
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- December 20, 1991 ( 1991-12-20 )
- Running time
- 188 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $40 million
- Box office
- $205.4 million
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Encyclopedic overview
JFK is a 1991 American epic political thriller film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone. The film examines the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, who came to believe there was a government conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald was a scapegoat. The film's screenplay was adapted by Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books On the Trail of the Assassins by Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs. Kevin Costner stars as Garrison, with an ensemble supporting cast including Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Donald Sutherland, Laurie Metcalf and narrated by Martin Sheen.
JFK's embrace of conspiracy theories made it controversial. Many major American newspapers ran editorials accusing Stone of spreading untruths, including the claim that Kennedy was killed as part of a coup d'état to install Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in his place.
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