Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
- Awards
- 7 nominations
Gillian Mariner Gordon
- Cricket
- (as Gillian Gordon)
Katie Henoch
- Suzy
- (as Kate Henoch)
David De Beck
- Sargent Shriver
- (as David DeBeck)
Matthew Lawler
- Dun Gifford
- (as Matt Lawler)
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- TriviaThe 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.
- GoofsTed 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.
- Quotes
Joseph Kennedy: You'll never be great.
- ConnectionsFeatured 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)
Performed by Fapardokly
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Featured review
Better late than never that the true story of the Chappaquidick coverup gets major attention. For the Kennedys, laws and rules were always for the little people. I'm of a generation old enough to remember Chappaquidick. It's good that the younger crowd gets to see how the Kennedys operate. Disgusting how Ted, backed by his army of fixers and p.r. Hacks, portrays himself and his family as victims, when he was responsible for a young girl's death. My only complaint about the movie is that it's too kind to him, leaning on the "dad made me do it" and the myth of Kennedy family devotion to "public service." As a resident of Massachusetts I am ashamed that after this miscarriage of justice the voters of this state continued to re-elect this execrable miscreant. By the way it's been reported that "powerful people" tried to stop the release of this movie.
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $17,395,520
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,765,854
- Apr 8, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $18,263,470
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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