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Frost/Nixon is a 2008 drama film based upon the play of the same name by Peter Morgan. The film version is directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films for Universal Pictures. The film reunites its original two stars from the London and Broadway productions of the play, Frank Langella as former President of the United States Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as British TV broadcaster David Frost. Filming began on August 27, 2007.
A series of news reports document the unfolding story of the revelation of Richard Nixon participating in the bugging of members of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel up until news that the House of Representatives is likely to vote to impeach Nixon. The film then cuts to a behind the scenes view of Nixon making his resignation speech. Nixon is shown leaving the White House in a helicopter and flying away.
Meanwhile David Frost is finishing off an episode of his talk show Frost Across Australia, until he comes off set to see Nixon entering the helicopter on a television. He asks a producer to ascertain the worldwide viewing figures for the event.
A few weeks later in the London Weekend Television central office, Frost discusses the possibility of an interview with his producer and friend, John Birt. When Frost mentions Nixon as the subject, Birt doubts the likelihood that Nixon would be willing to talk to Frost.
Nixon is shown recovering after illness in La Casa Pacifica, discussing his memoirs with Swifty Lazar, who mentions a request by Frost to conduct an interview. It is mentioned that CBS were offering $350,000 to Frost's $500,000. In a series of cutaway interviews, Lazar explains how he managed to talk Frost up to $600,000.
Frost makes the first partial payment of $200,000 in a meeting at La Casa Pacifica, although Jack Brennan (his former presidential Chief of Staff), doubt Frost will be able to pay the entire amount.
Frost however manages to finance the entire fee, by selling his shares in LWT and by calling in help from wealthy friends. He hires two investigators, Jack Zelnik and James Reston Jr. to dig for information along with Birt, mainly on the Watergate scandal.
Frost is shown trying to sell the series of four interviews (to be broadcast as four 90 minute specials) to the US broadcast networks, although they all turn him down. Despite the financial issues, Frost is able to finance the hire of recording equipment and a venue and the interviews begin.
Over the first four recording sessions (each at two hours in length covering Nixon's Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, a Biographical piece and Watergate), Frost is shown struggling to ask the planned "on the spot" questions to Nixon, with Nixon being able to take up much of the time for the sessions by making long speeches without enabling Frost to challenge him.
Frost's editorial team appears to be breaking apart as the two American members (Zelnik and Reston) express anger that Nixon appears to be exonerating himself. Frost suggests that the four of them separate over a small break for Easter, after having been together almost daily for a month.
Four days before the final session on Watergate, Frost receives a phone call in his hotel room from a drunk Richard Nixon. Frost answers with cheeseburgers, expecting a call asking about dinner arrangements. Nixon proceeds to bemoan his lot and suggesting that, like Frost, people of a higher social class brought down as they refused to accept him in a high position. Nixon tells Frost that they both know the final interview will make or break the other's career. If Frost fails to implicate Nixon definitively in the Watergate scandal, then Frost will have allowed Nixon to revive his political career at the expense of Frost, who will have an unsellable series of interviews and be bankrupt.
The conversation knocks Frost in to action declaring "I've got to work!" Until now having spent most of his time selling the show to networks and gaining advertisers, Frost resolves to ensure that the final interview will result in him emerging successful. He calls Reston and tells him to follow up on an earlier hunch and works relentlessly for three days.
Shortly before the final interview, Frost mentions the phone call; however Nixon ask him "What phone call?" As the final recording begins, Frost is a much sterner adversary, providing evidence of Nixon's full involvement, causing Nixon to admit that he did things that would otherwise be illegal, were he not President. Frost asks if the President took part in a cover-up at which point Brennan bursts in and stops the recording as Nixon is visibly unable to answer. The President and Brennan confer in a side room, Brennan telling Nixon that there will be "No way back East" if he admits to any cover up. Nixon says he is tired of lying, but thanks his Chief of Staff as he returns to complete the recording admitting he "Let the American people down."
Shortly before Frost returns to the UK, he visits Nixon in his villa and thanks him for the interviews. Nixon questions Frost if they really had a discussion on the phone, and asks what they discussed. Frost replies "Cheeseburgers", and bids goodbye to Nixon and leaves with his partner.
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