NBC - Kennedy (1983)

Kennedy, 1983, dir. Jim Goddard. Before he occupied The West Wing, Martin Sheen portrayed another President in this award-winning TV miniseries. Having already played RFK in The Missiles of October, Sheen assumed the role of JFK for this poignant docudrama. If you can stomach his sometimes over-the-top Kennedy accent, there is much to admire about Sheen's humanized portrayal of JFK. Kennedy's notorious womanizing, however, is only hinted at here in scenes depicting FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's (Vincent Gardenia) obsession with the President's morality.

Kennedy opens with JFK's narrow victory over Richard Nixon to become the 35th President and ends with his assassination. The miniseries employs the tried-and-true TV biopic "greatest hits" formula: it covers the Bay of Pigs, the civil rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the death of his baby boy Patrick, and America's growing involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy also dramatizes his relationships with wife Jackie (Blair Brown), his brother Bobby (Lois & Clark's John Shea) and parents (Geraldine Fitzgerald and E.G. Marshall). While Kennedy is a heartfelt account of his Presidency, I wished it would've probed the man's flaws more than it did.

Amazon Review
Martin Sheen played president well before his stint on television's The West Wing in this affecting miniseries about John F. Kennedy. All of the momentous events of JFK's remarkable term are covered (with actual news footage used to excellent effect), but it is the portrayal of the entire Kennedy family as real, flawed people that gives Kennedy its power. The Kennedys gossip, snipe, joke, and bother each other like a real family rather than rigid historical figures or threadbare caricatures. Sheen plays Kennedy as a man with lofty ideals who is more than willing to dirty his hands to serve his greater purpose. Blair Brown plays Jacqueline Kennedy with a shrewd understanding of politics, but also a whiff of vanity. In addition to the strong performances by both leads, Vincent Gardenia gives a brilliant performance as J. Edgar Hoover: stiff, quirky and strange, prurient and moralistic at the same time, and boiling with hatred. The DVD includes 75 minutes of documentary footage from the Kennedy library. --Ali Davis

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