All the President’s Men is a 1976 American biographical political drama-thriller film about Richard Nixon’s administration and the Watergate scandal that brought him down. It is based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two journalists who investigated the Watergate affair for The Washington Post. It is directed by Alan J. Pakula and has a screenplay by William Goldman.
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively, in the picture, which was directed by Walter Coblenz and produced by Redford’s Wildwood Enterprises.
The film received many Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations, and the Library of Congress designated it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2010 as being ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically important.’
The film, unlike the book, only covers the first seven months of the Watergate controversy, from the break-in through Nixon’s second inauguration on January 20, 1973. About the case, the film introduced the term ‘follow the money,’ which does not occur in the book or other Watergate material.
In 1974, Redford paid $450,000 for the rights to Woodward and Bernstein’s book, to adapt it into a $5 million picture. The Washington Post’s executive editor, Ben Bradlee, concluded that the film would be created regardless of his consent and decided that it would be ‘more sensible to try to influence it accurately.’
All the President’s Men took in $7,016,001 in its first week from 604 theatres, putting it at the top of the box office in the United States. At the box office, it eventually made $70.6 million.
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