Das Alibi - Spiel der Macht

Originaltitel: Chappaquiddick

2017
12
1 Std. 46 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

14.893

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Bruce Dern, Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, and Ed Helms in Das Alibi - Spiel der Macht (2017)

Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed after he is involved in a fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

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In der Darstellung von Ted Kennedys Beteiligung an dem tödlichen Autounfall von 1969, der das Leben einer jungen Kampagnenstrategin, Mary Jo Kopechne, fordert.In der Darstellung von Ted Kennedys Beteiligung an dem tödlichen Autounfall von 1969, der das Leben einer jungen Kampagnenstrategin, Mary Jo Kopechne, fordert.In der Darstellung von Ted Kennedys Beteiligung an dem tödlichen Autounfall von 1969, der das Leben einer jungen Kampagnenstrategin, Mary Jo Kopechne, fordert.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

14.893

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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- 7 Nominierungen insgesamt

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You Put Us In A Difficult Postion

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Serious Legal Trouble

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Im Not Going to be President

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Run In His Place

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The bridge where they were driving on was the Dike Bridge on the eastern part of the island, that connects the main part of Chappaquiddick with a strip of beach that runs north/south. While there are some homes along that eastern strip of beach on the north end, the party was not at one of them. The mystery of why they were driving on Dike Bridge has never been answered.

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Ted asks the operator to make a collect call and gives his name, but never gives a phone number. The operator patches the call without it. By the late 1960s, pay phones allowed callers to directly dial a collect call by dialing a 0 rather than a 1 before the area code and phone number, and then telling the operator who picked up that it was a collect call and giving the operator his/her name.

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Joseph Kennedy: You'll never be great.

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Featured in The Ben Shapiro Show: A Big Leftist Myth Implodes on Taxes (2017)

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Written by Merrell Fankhauser (as Merrell Wayne Fankhauser)
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8/10

A Competent Film on a Serious Event

The movie is well made, moves a little slowly but is compelling due to it's subject. The actors do a superb job. Even Ed Helms and Jim Gaffigan manage to make you forget who they are.

Kennedy and his handlers do not come off well, of course. It's a not a documentary and I do not trust Hollywood or the media to portray anyone historical character completely accurately.

For me, there are 2 take aways from the movie:

1. This was a sincere young lady whose life was cut much too short. It was difficult for me to watch her on screen knowing what was about to happen to her. She deserved better. Sadly, she is a footnote in history. We should refer to it as the Mary Jo Kopechne scandal, not Chappaquidick.

2. The end of the film featured "person on the street" interviews from 1969. It was amazing to listen to the ones who dismissed his short-comings and continued to support him. Seeing those interviews in the Trump era makes for an interesting perspective. Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton or Donald Trump, the American voter on both sides of the aisle will look past a man's sins if they think that person will advance their political agenda. The opposite is also true: People will mercilessly and unflinchingly condemn a person for his shortcomings if they don't agree politically. This was true during the 2016 election cycle. It was never about Hillary or Trump's demons, it was always politics. Until that is understood, people will never get why Trump has support.

The biggest unanswered question for me is: how did Kennedy get out of the car. If the doors were jammed shut and the windows unbroken, which kept anyone from getting Mary Jo out of the car, then how did he get out?