18½ (2021) on Netflix
PG-1320211h 28m
Connie Lashley transcribes for the Nixon White House. She comes away with the only copy of the 18½-minute gap in the president's tapes and calls reporter Paul Marrow.
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- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb4.8/10549 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
Watergate dominates the news in 1974, and Connie Lashley, a junior transcriber for the Nixon White House, has the sole recording of the 18½-minute gap in the president's tapes. It leaves her shaken, so she calls Paul Marrow, a New York Times reporter, and offers him a listen. They agree to meet at a roadside diner and drive on to the Silver Sands Motel, a faded seaside resort, to play the reel where nobody can hear it. The recorder Paul brought does not work. Hunting for another one brings them across the motel's one-eyed desk clerk, Jack, a commune of hippies on the beach that Barry leads, and Samuel and Lena, a married couple their senior whose tape machine they may borrow only by staying for dinner. To stay unnoticed, Connie and Paul introduce themselves as newlyweds.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 18½ (2021)
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- Shooting on Dan Mirvish's film was halted after 11 days by the COVID-19 pandemic; during the next six months Mirvish edited the footage, composer Luis Guerra worked on the music, and the crew recorded Bruce Campbell, Jon Cryer and Ted Raimi's voice sessions for the fictional 18½-minute Nixon tape gap over Zoom.
