JFK – The Director's Cut

Cast View all

	Gary Oldman	Lee Harvey Oswald
	Donald Sutherland	X
	Kevin Costner	Jim Garrison
	Kevin Bacon	Willie O'Keefe
	Michael Rooker	Bill Broussard
	Vincent D'Onofrio	Bill Newman
	Bob Gunton	TV Newsman #3
	Wayne Knight	Numa Bertel
	Laurie Metcalf	Susie Cox
	Brian Doyle-Murray	Jack Ruby
	Joe Pesci	David Ferrie
	Pruitt Taylor Vince	Lee Bowers
	John Candy	Dean Andrews
	Jay O. Sanders	Lou Ivon
	Dale Dye	General Y
	Edward Asner	Guy Bannister
	Sissy Spacek	Liz Garrison
	Gary Grubbs	Al Oser
	Tony Plana	Carlos Bringuier
	Jack Lemmon	Jack Martin
	Walter Matthau	Senator Long
	Sally Kirkland	Rose Cheramie
	Marco Perella	Mercer Interrogator
	Peter Maloney	Colonel Finck
	Tomas Milian	Leopoldo

Crew View all

Director	Oliver Stone
Writer	Jim Garrison, Jim Marrs, Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar
Producer	A. Kitman Ho, Arnon Milchan, Joseph P. Reidy, Oliver Stone, Clayton Townsend
Musician	John Williams
Photography	Robert Richardson

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Story Synopsis:
The Academy Award®-winning direction by Oliver Stone and editing combines color, black and white and documentary footage into a seamless visually engrossing presentation. Costner stars as District Attorney Jim Garrison who turns investigator in a turbulent search for the truth about President John F. Kennedy’s murder.

LaserDisc Picture:
The transfer of the film is impeccable, bright and clear without a trace of video noise. Color saturation in the beginning scenes and through much of Sides 1 and 2 are reduced to make the scenes look very pale in color. This is the intention of cinematographer Bob Richardson, who personally supervised the digital video transfer

LaserDisc Soundtrack:
In the highly respected Academy Awards technical categories of Best Sound and Best Sound Editing, LucasArts’® Skywalker Sound Division’s engineers were nominated for JFK. There is an excellent sense of surround envelopment in the Dolby Pro Logic Surround® mode. The opening drum cadence dramatically underscores the excellence of the recording while effectively establishing the solemn and serious nature of the subject matter. This is an excellent demonstration sequence.

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