DC Film - All the President's Men

We watched another classic DC film this weekend, All the President's Men. For the other five people out there who haven't seen this film, it is about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's uncovering of the Watergate scandal.

In case you were also born too late to remember Watergate and/or a product of the United States school system. I'll give you a quick rundown.

Some former CIA were caught breaking into the democratic headquarters at the Watergate hotel. A crazy investigation by two Washington Post reporters eventually uncovered that the break-in was just one part of an operation to spy on, discredit, and keep from power democratic candidates.

The President, the CIA, the FBI, and a whole lot of republicans were implicated. Nixon resigned. Ford became president and then pardoned Nixon for all crimes. Incredibly, this complete implosion of the republican party resulted in a one term presidency for Jimmy Carter and then right back to the Republicans. Yikes. How'd the dems screw that up.

Despite being nothing but newsroom shots, interviews, and news clips; the story moves. Robert Redford was intense as Woodward. Dustin Hoffman, as the chain-smoking Bernstein, was just a little sleazy. It's an incredible story, but it needed those two to carry it off.

There are all kinds of great DC shots in the film. You see the Capital right off the bat, the Whitehouse several times, the Library of Congress steps, The Kennedy Center, the Washington Post building, and some neighborhood street shots.