Frost / Nixon..

Michael Sheen and Frank Langella..so superb.

Sheen merely OK for me (I do know Frost and he was no Frost) but Langella superb and should have won the Oscar.

Yes, and the 'shoes' thing was a nice touch. I never quite understood, though, why Frost himself was happy to see a few obvious (and seemingly quite pointless) inaccuracies included about himself, but then that man always strikes me as having such a thick skin there can't be much room for any internal organs. (At Peter Cook's memorial service, when Alan Bennett got up and reminisced that Cook's greatest regret was saving Frost from drowning, who rocked with laughter the most in the front row? Frost.) By the way, there's an intriguing little Radio 4 'Archive Hour' about the whole history of the White House tapes that's well worth tracking down - the excerpt with LBJ talking on the phone to his tailor about the need to stop making trousers that 'cut into ma nutsack' is hard to forget!

Langella is one of the most underrated yet brilliant actors.

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Langella is one of the most underrated yet brilliant actors.

His Dracula performance in the late 70s is superb.