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Hey, chicky
baby--it's a cuckoo thing, ya dig?
You, too, will find yourself
speaking Rat Pack lingo after watching this made-for-HBO biopic about that
brief and shining moment when Camelot met Hoboken-on-the-Pacific. The film does
a good job of capturing the heady, anything-goes feel of the late-1950s,
early-1960s era when Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and their running buddies ruled
Hollywood, Las Vegas and, it seemed, the world. The story centres on Sinatra's
relationship with John F Kennedy (William F Petersen) before and after he was
elected president. It's not particularly flattering to either man, as Sinatra
pimps Kennedy into a relationship with Judith Campbell, at the same time she
was the favourite consort of mob boss Sam Giancana.
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| Ray Liotta is a forceful
Sinatra (though it's not much of an impression); Joe Mantegna has the look and
the sound of the surprisingly sober Dean Martin; and Don Cheadle does a great
job as the racially conflicted Sammy Davis Jr. Not great cinema but it's never
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| Director |
Rob Cohen
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Ray
Liotta |
Frank Sinatra
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| Writing |
Kario Salem
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Joe
Mantegna |
Dean Martin
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| Producer |
Neal H.
Moritz |
William L.
Petersen |
John F.
Kennedy |
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