Elvis & Nixon is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Liza Johnson and written by Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes. The film stars Michael Shannon as singer Elvis Presley and Kevin Spacey as President Richard Nixon, and focuses on the December 21, 1970, meeting between the two men at the White House. The film also stars Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, and Evan Peters. The film was released on April 22, 2016, by Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street.
Plot
On the morning of December 21, 1970, actor-singer Elvis Presley shows up to the White House and requests an urgent meeting with President Richard Nixon. Presley opposes the drug culture, the hippie movement, SDS, and the Black Panther Party; he wants Nixon to swear him in as an undercover agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Two of Nixon’s senior aides, Dwight Chapin and Egil Krogh, set up a meeting between the two men. At first, Nixon is annoyed by what he sees as a PR stunt, but over the course of the meeting finds that they have much in common: they are both self-made men who came from humble beginnings and worked hard for their success, and they both feel unappreciated by an American culture they no longer understand. They part on good terms, and pose together for an iconic photograph.
Cast
Michael Shannon as Elvis Presley
Kevin Spacey as President Richard Nixon
Alex Pettyfer as Jerry Schilling
Johnny Knoxville as Sonny West
Colin Hanks as Bud Krogh
Evan Peters as Dwight Chapin
Tate Donovan as White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman
Sky Ferreira as Charlotte
Tracy Letts as John Finlator
Ahna O’Reilly as Mary Anne Peterson
Ashley Benson as Margaret
Dylan Penn as Diane
Joey Sagal as Joe King
Geraldine Singer as Rose Mary Woods
Hanala Sagal as Chapin’s secretary
Poppy Delevingne as a stewardess
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