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ROBERT REDFORD · 1976 · SIGNATURE ROLES
Bob Woodward is a young Washington Post reporter who, with Carl Bernstein, follows a break-in at the Watergate complex to the highest levels of the Nixon White House.
Bob Woodward is a young Washington Post reporter who, with Carl Bernstein, follows a break-in at the Watergate complex to the highest levels of the Nixon White House. Robert Redford plays him as a study in doggedness: the phone calls, the notes, the meetings in a parking garage with a source called Deep Throat, the slow realization that the story is bigger than anyone imagined.
Redford had pursued the Watergate story for years and produced the film, and its procedural style — no car chases, no speeches, just reporting — made it the definitive film about journalism. The famous newsroom, recreated in exact detail, and the final image of typewriters clattering over the inauguration, argue that democracy survives not through heroes but through people willing to check one more fact. It remains the film young reporters are shown first, and Redford’s quiet, relentless Woodward is why.
