Frost/Nixon (film) Frost/Nixon (film) Frost/Nixon is a 2008 British-American historical drama film based on the 2006 play of the same name by Peter Morgan, who also adapted the screenplay. The film tells the story behind the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film was directed by Ron Howard and produced for Universal Pictures by Howard, Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. The film reunites its original two stars from the West End and Broadway productions of the play: Michael Sheen
Conspiracy (2008 film) Conspiracy (2008 film) Conspiracy is a 2008 American action thriller film written and directed by Adam Marcus and stars Val Kilmer and Jennifer Esposito. The film is influenced by the classic western film noir thriller "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), which itself was an adaptation of a short story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on March 18, 2008. Whilst "Bad Day at Black Rock" tells the story of wounded World War II vet John J. MacReedy, "Conspiracy" revolves around William "Spooky" MacPherson, a disabled special operations marine