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- 1979
- R
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- 1979
- R
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
Summary The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
Directed By: William Richert
Written By: Richard Condon, William Richert
- 1979
- R
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- 1979
- R
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
Winter Kills
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Summary The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
Directed By: William Richert
Written By: Richard Condon, William Richert
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
77
85% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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It has not lost an iota of its power to shock, amuse, and simultaneously perplex viewers. If anything, it seems to have grown even bolder with age in its willingness to take on sacred cows in the craziest manner imaginable.
Winter Kills provides a perfect, absurd finale to the half-decade of post-Watergate paranoid thrillers that preceded it and compares favorably to the grand unified conspiracy-theory fictions that followed, such as Oliver Stone's JFK and James Ellroy's book American Tabloid.
It may be a hectic, giddy, absurd movie—but, in its evocation of a conspiracy so logical that it is beyond belief, the film dramatizes the power of such an idea to attract true believers.
Richert's direction negotiates the plot's many pleasurably sharp bends with such skill that one emerges a little dazed, more than a little amused, and nagged by a worrying sense that it could just all be true.
Writer-director William Richert's black comedy about political conspiracy is an amusing forerunner of TV's "Dynasty." [02 Jun 1990]
In keeping with a morality tale on the excesses of wealth and power, it is extravagantly confusing, grandiosely paranoid, flamboyantly absurd and more than a little fun. Though it utterly lacks the internal consistency that "good" movies require, as a wild-goose chase it maintains a certain lunatic fascination. [04 Jun 1979, p.76]
If there's a decent film lurking somewhere in Winter Kills, writer-director William Richert doesn't want anyone to see it in his Byzantine version of a presidential assassination conspiracy [from a book by Richard Condon].
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Production Company
Winter Gold Productions
Release Date May 11, 1979
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
Tagline They are the power. Protected by violence and ruled by corruption. [Video]
