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<em>Mark Felt</em> Tells a Familiar Tale of the Watergate Scandal

Liam Neeson stars as the FBI official who was later revealed as “Deep Throat” in Peter Landesman’s methodical drama.
Source: Sony Pictures Classics

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is a film about the Watergate scandal. You’ve heard about this affair before—it was a fairly major political to-do in the ’70s, a wide-reaching conspiracy of dirty tricks and abuse of power that eventually brought about the resignation of President Richard Nixon. But the scandal is news to the real-life characters that make up the ensemble of , a muted thriller that takes place within the FBI and follows the exploits of the man who would later be revealed as ’s crucial secret source, “Deep Throat.”

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