Winter Kills

'Winter Kill's from the novel by The Manchurian Candidate/ Prizzi's Honor Author Robert Condon, Jeff Bridge's play the brother of an assassinated President (This film has star tingly real comparisons of the Kennedy dynasty,) Bridge's seemingly lives in a sheltered... Full review

Nineteen years after JFK was killed (by whom?) and five years after Watergate, this one puts the whole conspiracy theory industry in its place. One of the funniest films I have seen for a very long time - anyone who... Full review

Condon wrote a magazine article about this movie production around 1980 that makes it ten times as strange as the story itself. Among other details:The movie was financed with money from cocaine dealers.When the production went over budget, the executive... Full review

"Winter Kills" is based on a novel by Richard Condon ("The Manchurian Candidate") about a man who confesses to having killed the President on his death bed. The President's brother (Jeff Bridges) witnesses the confession and stumbles upon a conspiracy... Full review

A wily, labyrinthine political satire that is saved from being over the top by the brilliant performances of its cast. The movie takes the paranoid storytelling style of the Cold War thriller, but applies it to American domestic politics instead.... Full review

This is one of those films that has been sort of pigeon-holed and forgotten. It has never been shown on television and is hard to get on video. I remember reading that it wasn't even realeased until three years after... Full review

William Richert's "Winter Kills" is a strange, offbeat film, to say the least. It begins seriously, but then changes tones and becomes a searing black comedy. I felt a little guilty about enjoying the film so much, considering that it's... Full review

Winter Kills is an enormously intriguing film, whose entertainment quotient depends largely upon how early on the viewer catches on that this is an extremely black comedy about politics, paranoia, and the sacred cow Kennedy family. This is what you... Full review

Winter Kills once was available on videotape; no longer. That's a pity because it's a stylish, fun-packed phantasmagoria about American power as expressed through American politics. (Since the source material was written by Richard Condon -- of Manchurian Candidate and... Full review

So I just watched Winter Kills again and was struck by the incomparable awesomeness of Sterling Hayden, one of my all-time favorite actors. Like many sensible people he didn't think much of film acting and appeared in films only to finance more worthwhile pursuits, like boating, alcoholism, travel and smoking giant piles of weed. ... Full Review

which in itself would make an entertaining movie.....Equally shocking, he also encounters his father, played by legendary director John Huston, in a pair of bright bikini underwear..... ... Full Review

Winter Kills is recommended in general, and highly recommended to fans of this genre. Final Thoughts: Winter Kills deserves due consideration in the American political assassination sub-genre and, I think, a rather high placement within its canon. ... Full Review

William Richert's " Winter Kills Winter Kills " is one of the more interesting misfires of the 1970s. The Final Word: Winter Kills Winter Kills " is worth renting. Sound Quality: The soundtrack is the original theatrical mono track. ... Full Review

Winter Kills fared somewhat better when director William Richert arranged to rerelease the film through his own company and restore several scenes that had been cut by its previous backers Jeff Bridges stars as Nick Kegan, the scion of a powerful Kennedyesque family, who has done his best to make himself obscure after the assassination of his older brother, the former president of the U.S. While working as an oil rigger, Nick is introduced to a terminally ill gentleman who claims to have been "the second a ... Full Review

Say we were sitting around in a dorm room in 1978 and I told you that each winter the world's richest men gather in an obscure village high in the Alps to discuss how to impose economic policies in their... ... Full Article

Actor-director William Richert ( Winter Kills ), who directed the late River Phoenix in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), originally planned this low-budget adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1848-50 classic adventure, as a vehicle for River Phoenix... ... Full Article