Elvis Meets Nixon

Toldi, october 13. friday, 17.30, Kossuth 2, october7. saturday, 23.15,

Elvis Meets Nixon
USA
1997
Dir: Allan Arkush
Scr: Alan Rosen
Phot: Michael Storey
Editor: Neil Mandelberg
Music: Larry Brown
Cast: Rick Peters, Bob Gunton, Alyson Court, Denny Doherty, Jacky Burroughs, Curtis Armstrong, Gabriel Hogan
Format: 35 mm
Colour
103 mins

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This film retraces a relatively unknown episode of Elvis Presley's life: in 1970, escaping from his minders, he sets out on a crazy journey to Washington all by himself. Pill-popping all the while, wearing one of his purple stage costumes, cape and gold belt, he thinks he can travel incognito, hold up a doughnut store and ends up at the White House, in a surrealistic encounter with Richard Nixon.