I saw "LBJ", starring Woody Harrelson-Now You See Me movies, White Men Can't Jump; Jennifer Jason Leigh-The Hateful Eight, The Hitcher; C. Thomas Howell-Southland_tv, The Hitcher and Jeffrey Donovan-Burn Notice_tv, Book of Shadows:Blair Witch 2. This movie is based on the life of Lyndon B. Johnson, who became president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November of 1963. It's directed by Rob Reiner-The Bucket List, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally...-and stars Woody as LBJ and Jeffrey as JFK. The movie covers Woody being chosen by Jeffrey as his vice-president in 1960 and some of the resentment Woody felt from just about everyone in politics, except for Jeffrey-he did pick him as his running mate so he must have thought he would be useful. Jennifer is Woody's wife-aka Lady Bird-and C. Thomas is an aide to Woody. This all takes place in the 1960's so the big topics of the day that were on people's minds had to do with civil rights and Viet Nam. Jeffrey was working on a Civil Rights Act just before he died and after Woody was appointed, he had to try to get it passed to cement his own legacy, as well as Jeffrey's. A lot of the movie was quite familiar to me-believe it or not, I'm old enough to remember watching it on TV-but there were some tidbits that were a little surprising to learn. As I've mentioned before, I like to read the end credits and I noticed that this movie was made in 2016-about a year old. I don't know why there was a delay. It's rated "R" for language and has a running time of 1 hour & 38 minutes. It is interesting, especially if you are a history buff, but it's not one that I would buy on DVD. It would be fine as a rental.
Review of LBJ
