Interview with the Assassin (2002)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Neil Burger

Writer:

Neil Burger (written by)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Dallas. 1963. The second shooter.

Plot:

Almost forty years after the John F. Kennedy assassination, an ex-Marine named Walter Ohlinger has come forward with a startling claim.

Plot Keywords:

Conspiracy Theory | Kennedy Assassination | Mock Documentary | Paranoia

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Raymond J. Barry	...	Walter Ohlinger
Dylan Haggerty	...	Ron Kobeleski
Renee Faia	...	Sharon Kobeleski
Kelsey Kemper	...	Karen Kobeleski
Dennis Lau	...	Steven Wu
Sonny Franks
Jared McVay	...	Jimmy Jones
Christel Khalil	...	Babysitter
Lillias White	...	Nurse
Kate Williamson	...	Walter's Ex-Wife
Jack Tate	...	John Seymour Jr.
Nicolas Mize	...	Gary Deetz
Jim Hiser	...	Alan Delvecchio
Darrell Sandeen	...	John Seymour Sr.
Evan O'Meara	...	Secret Service Agent #1

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

USA:R | Finland:K-11

Company:

Interview Productions

Quotes:

Walter Ohlinger: I was in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. That mean anything to you?

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2003) (TV)

Minamalist Masterpiece

Why aren't there more comments and viewers for this disturbing little gem? The best conspiracy movie(JFK, PI or otherwise) in may a year hits all the right notes technically and plot wise. Filmmed digitally (SONY PD-150) with such skill that you'll be checking your TV/DVD resolution in the first five minutes, the filmmakers use every advantage and disadvatage of the digital format to their benefit. The camera work begins static, rigid local TV news style then slowly takes on a subtle impressionistic style that blurs the line between docudrama and fiction. Viewers not interested in film as a meta-(self referential) text need not apply. After starting with the formal aspects of the JFK mystery, camera angles, do pictures lie, tampered

evidence and conflicting witnesses the film then seems to turn on the viewer so that we are put in the position of one of those unlucky witnesses who were

bribed, intimidated, bullied, framed or killed for seeing just a little too much. The performances are uniformly great, starting with the ballistics man who plays his part so straight I had to mentally check and remind myself this wasn't a

documentary. The ex-wife was brilliant. All the actors were just realistic to the point of surrealism. I'm now babbling, SEE THIS MOVIE