18½
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½ minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Released
- 2021
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 2021
Storyline
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½ minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
Top credits
Willa Fitzgerald — Connie
John Magaro — Paul- Gina Kreiezmar — Deb
Marija Juliette Abney — Cheryl
Did you know
• According to the DVD commentary track, during the final scenes of the movie, writer/producer Daniel Moya was hiding under a blanket, behind the TV. He was there, listening in one ear to a scratch recording of the Nixon tape made earlier by him, the director and the script supervisor. Moya then shouted out audible cues to Willa Fitzgerald and John Magaro so that they could react and recite their lines at the right times during the scene while they were otherwise listening to a silent reel-to-reel tape. This way, the sound recordist, David Rosenberg, could record mostly clean tracks of production audio of the tape player and the actors moving around the room.
• When a portion of the "missing" tape is played, Nixon is heard deriding FBI Associate Director Mark Felt who, in 2005, was revealed as the anonymous source "Deep Throat" assisting the Washington Post reporters covering the Watergate scandal.
• The film was shot at the Silver Sands Motel & Cottages in Greenport, New York, which was at the time owned by producer Terry Keefe. It is the only feature film to be shot at the Silver Sands.
User reviews
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Technical specs
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color
