JFK
JFK is a 1991 American epic political thriller film 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 conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald was a scapegoat.
Plot
During his farewell address in 1961, outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns about the build-up of the military-industrial complex. He is succeeded by John F. Kennedy as president, whose time in office is marked by the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis until his assassination in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Former US marine and suspected Soviet defector Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit and arraigned with both murders but is killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison and his team investigate potential New Orleans links to the JFK assassination, including private pilot David Ferrie, but their investigation is publicly rebuked by the federal government and Garrison closes the investigation.
Awards
Cast
- Beata Pozniak
- Bob Gunton
- Brian Doyle-Murray
- Dale Dye
- Darryl Cox
- Donald Sutherland
- Duane Grey
- Ed Asner
- Edwin Neal
- Ellen McElduff
- Frank Whaley
- Gail Cronauer
- Gary Grubbs
- Gary Oldman
- George R. Robertson
- Jack Lemmon
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- James N. Harrell
- Jay O. Sanders
- Jerry Douglas
- Jim Garrison
- Jo Anderson
- Joe Pesci
- John Candy
- John Finnegan
- John Larroquette
- John S. Davies
- Kevin Bacon
- Kevin Costner
- Laurie Metcalf
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Lolita Davidovich
- Marco Perella
- Martin Sheen
- Michael Rooker
- Peter Maloney
- Pruitt Taylor Vince
- Richard Rutowski
- Rika Dialina
- Ron Rifkin
- Sally Kirkland
- Sean Stone
- Sissy Spacek
- Tomás Milián
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Tony Plana
- Vincent D'Onofrio
- Walter Matthau
- Wayne Knight
- Wayne Tippit
- Willem Oltmans