Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House Dvd

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is a 2017 American biographical political thriller film written and directed by Peter Landesman, and based on the 2006 autobiography of FBI agent Mark Felt, written with John O’Connor. The film depicts how Felt became the anonymous source nicknamed “Deep Throat” for reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and helped them in the investigation which led them to the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

The film stars Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Tony Goldwyn, and Maika Monroe. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, and was theatrically released on September 29, 2017, by Sony Pictures Classics. It is also the fourth film on the Watergate scandal following 1989’s The Final Days, the 1999 comic retelling Dick, and the 1976 Academy Award winner All the President’s Men.

Plot

The movie start on April 11th 1972. Nixon’s advisors at the White House ask Mark Felt how to ask J. Edgar Hoover to step aside as the FBI director. Some days later, Hoover dies. Pat Gray becomes the acting FBI director. In June 1972, the several ex-CIA and FBI agent burglarize Watergate hotel to bug the DNC headquarters.

Members of the Weather Underground bomb the Pentagon.

Attorney General Richard Kleindienst announces that the Watergate investigation has concluded without the White House or CREEP (Nixon’s re-election committee) being implicated.

Pat Gray’s Senate confirmation hearings gets derails when it comes to light that he was sending the FBI investigative files to the White House.

A side story of the movie revolves around Mark Felt tracking and locating his runaway hippie daughter in a commune.

Cast

Liam Neeson as Mark Felt, The FBI agent and Deputy Director who became “Deep Throat”, the anonymous whistleblower who helped expose the Watergate scandal.
Diane Lane as Audrey Felt, Mark’s brilliant and troubled wife who shares the burden of Mark’s dangerous dilemma about Watergate.
Tony Goldwyn as Ed Miller, An FBI Intel chief
Maika Monroe as Joan Felt, Mark and Audrey’s daughter
Kate Walsh as Pat Miller, Ed’s wife
Josh Lucas as Charlie Bates, an FBI agent and Felt lieutenant who suspects that Felt is leaking classified information on the Watergate investigation.
Michael C. Hall as John Dean, the Nixon White House counsel and architect of the Watergate cover-up who was desperate to stop the Washington Post leaks.
Marton Csokas as Pat Gray, FBI Acting Director and one of Felt’s rivals who then had to withdraw his nomination after destroying Watergate evidence.
Tom Sizemore as Bill Sullivan, one of Felt’s rivals at the FBI
Julian Morris as Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who teamed with Carl Bernstein to expose the Watergate dealings.
Wendi McLendon-Covey as Carol Tschudy, Felt’s secretary
Ike Barinholtz as Angelo Lano, the head of the investigation
Bruce Greenwood as Sandy Smith, Time magazine reporter
Brian d’Arcy James as Robert Kunkel, an FBI special agent
Noah Wyle as Stan Pottinger, who prosecuted Felt and other FBI officials for ordering break-ins to search homes of suspected domestic terrorist radicals, without warrants.
Eddie Marsan as Agency Man
Richard Molina as US Marshal