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Winter Kills is a 1979 satirical black comedy thriller film written and directed by William Richert, based on the eponymous novel of 1974 by Richard Condon.
May 11, 1979 · Winter Kills: Directed by William Richert. With Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach. The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
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The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter. Nineteen years after President Timothy Kegan (John Warner) was assassinated, his brother Nick (Jeff Bridges) discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman.
Inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination, this comic thriller follows Nick Kegan (Jeff Bridges), the younger brother of a...
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The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter. William Richert. Director, Writer.
WINTER KILLS. Approx. 97 min. 35mm. This thinly veiled and hyper-paranoiac take on the JFK assassination stars Bridges as Nick Kegan, scion of a fabulously wealthy and powerful family headed by patriarch Huston (hailed “the real delight of the film” by The New York Times ), as a character based on Joe Kennedy.
A comedy-thriller based on the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, Winter Kills features John Huston doing Chinatown level scene-chewing, and Jeff Bridges wandering around looking baffled for ninety minutes.
Jeff Bridges stars as Nick Kegan, the son of world famous tycoon Pa Kegan (John Huston) and half brother of the late President Timothy Kegan who was slain by a lone assassin 19 years earlier.
Winter Kills provides a perfect, absurd finale to the half-decade of post-Watergate paranoid thrillers that preceded it and compares favorably to the grand unified conspiracy-theory fictions that followed, such as Oliver Stone's JFK and James Ellroy's book American Tabloid.
