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JFK is a film, first released in Canada and the United States on December 20, 1991, which purports to tell the history surrounding the President of the United States John F. Kennedy's assassination. The film went on to win two Academy Awards, and was nominated for eight in total, including Best Picture. However it lost out for Best Picture to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs. Film critic Roger Ebert went on to name it one of the top ten films of the decade.

About the film

The film follows the 1967 to 1969 investigation led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner) and interweaves flashbacks of the theories behind the assassination with actual assassination movie films footage, such as the Zapruder film.

JFK stars Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Ron Rifkin, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Laurie Metcalf, Jay O. Sanders, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, John Candy, Brian Doyle-Murray, Gary Grubbs, Wayne Knight, Vincent D'Onofrio, Edward Asner, Jack Lemmon, Michael Rooker and Pruitt Taylor Vince. The movie was adapted by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs. Stone directed it. During the filming Dealey Plaza was completely restored to how it looked on November 22, 1963.

JFK won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Tommy Lee Jones), Best Director, Best Music, Original Score, Best Sound, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and Best Picture.

The real Jim Garrison, a severe critic of the Warren Commission, plays Supreme Court Chief Justice, Earl Warren in the film. Supposed assassination witness Beverly Oliver, who claimed to be the Babushka lady, also appeared in a cameo, non-speaking role.

Among the many advisors for the film were Gerald Hemming, a former Marine who has claimed involvement in various CIA activities, Robert Groden, a photographic expert and longtime JFK assassination researcher and author, and actual assassination witness Jean Hill.

One of the characters in the movie, "Mr. X" (played by Donald Sutherland), was loosely based on the theories and military experience of L. Fletcher Prouty, another advisor for the movie. However, unlike "Mr. X", Prouty had no connection to Presidential security at the time of the assassination. Prouty was a former Colonel in the Air Force, and military liaison between the CIA and the Pentagon. He wrote the 1975 book The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, (republished in 1992).

Upon release, JFK earned mostly favorable reviews and was financially successful, earning over US $205 million during its initial movie run.

Synopsis

The movie opens with a summary of John F. Kennedy's years as President - emphasising the events that, in Stone's thesis, would lead to his assassination - which finally builds to a reconstruction of the assassination on November 22nd, 1963. The movie then switches to following New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, as he learns about the assassination - and, importantly, of potential links between the assassination and New Orleans. Attempting to help the government's investigation, Garrison and his team investigate the New Orleans links, and bring in several potential accomplices before being forced to let them go - and being rebuked - by the federal authorities. As suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is himself assassinated by Jack Ruby, Garrison closes the investigation, but remains uneasy about what has happened. The investigation is later reopened in 1967.

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