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Chappaquiddick
Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Release : | 2018 |
Rating : | 6.4 |
Studio : | Lionsgate, Chimney Sweden, DMG Entertainment, |
Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Assistant Art Director, |
Cast : | Jason Clarke Kate Mara Ed Helms Bruce Dern Jim Gaffigan |
Genre : | Drama History Thriller |
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Very disappointing...
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This movie should have been done when he was alive , to maybe reopen the investigation. The Kennedys where all crooked beginning with the his bootlegger father just goes to show money gets you out of jail, no matter how you look at it he killed that girl of course the booze hound was drunk but he knew enough to save himself and let that girl die a slow death sleep off the booze then report it. Can't believe he was acquitted
ChappaquiddickFinally, they have made a feature-length film about Harry Potter's favourite sport.Oops, my mistake. This drama is actually about Ted Kennedy, not the golden snitch.In July 1969 the then Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) - brother to John and Robert Kennedy - drove his vehicle off of a Chappaquiddick Island bridge. While Ted survived the incident unscathed, his passenger, 28-year-old campaign aide Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara), did not.Fearing for his family's reputation, Ted fled the crime scene, only to be cajoled in to confessing later by his cousin (Ed Helms) and his State's Attorney (Jim Gaffigan).An overlooked aspect of the late Ted Kennedy's life, this random rendition of the decades old events may or may not be entirely factual. However, the actual facts still make Teddy seem like a complete creep.Incidentally, Teddy's brothers could've helped him make it look like Mary Jo had OD'd instead. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca
While I am old enough to remember the event, it was certainly overshadowed by the moon landing which occurred at the same time and it was only as I got older did I read and understand more about the events which occurred.I read a review by a person who stated they read over 20 books on the incident and they gave it a very good rating. I enjoyed it for the acting and writing and, of course, the early depiction of what we now know as the political elite. Bruce Dern was great as Joe Kennedy even though he only spoke 6 words, "alibi" being one of them.NOW, if they would only do a movie about true Russian collusion that Ted Kennedy was involved in to stop Reagan, that may actually be more interesting and informative to Americans.
The story of the movie is speculative and does not hold water. When Ted Kennedy drove Kopechne away from the party, the story becomes questionable. Even though Chappaquiddick uses Kennedy's testimonies from the time, it also proves an impossible story to tell 100 percent accurately as certain parts don't quite add up.The strangest aspect of Kopechne's death is the fact that it took Kennedy 10 hours to call the police after driving the car off the bridge. As both the movie and the historical record divulge, a passerby found the car in the morning and called the police. The diver who extracted Kopechne's body said in his testimony that he could have gotten the woman out of the car in 25 minutes following the crash had he been notified, which the movie also shows.Instead of calling the authorities, Ted Kennedy testified that he tried to get Kopechne out of the car himself until he determined that he couldn't and returned to the cottage where the party had been held. There, he got his cousin Joe Gargan (Ed Helms) and Gargan's friend, U.S. Attorney Paul Markham (Jim Gaffigan), who joined the senator in forming a plan. In Kennedy's testimony, he said that he swam back to his hotel - he originally testified that he had been driving himself and Kopechne to the ferry dock to return to their respective hotels in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. In the movie, however, Joe and Paul bring Kennedy back to Edgartown on a row boat, where he then changes his suit and calls his father, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. This is all speculative. The Kennedy team fixing the story is also speculative.Even though Chappaquiddick fills audiences in on the 10 hours between the accident and the next day when Kennedy finally called the police, it still largely remains mysterious why the senator chose not to call first responders immediately. "Gargan and Markham not only failed to get immediate help, but also let the senator swim back alone to report the accident from Edgartown," The movie also speculates that Kopechne could have been alive in the submerged car for a few hours following the crash. But nobody knows the truth of what happened to her. She could have been dead shortly after the accident. Many questions remain with no answers, many speculations with no evidence, and even though Chappaquiddick mostly accurately recounts the events of July 18, 1969 in Massachusetts, the only thing that audiences will walk out of the theater knowing for sure is that the exact events following the car crash will likely never be revealed.