Parkland

A controversial, factually based, traumatic, star-dotted (Mark Duplass, Rory Cochrane, Jackie Earle Haley, and Gil Bellows), 85-minute film, which is based on Vincent Bugliosi's novel Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and is reminiscent of Bobby, that chronicles the four days immediately following the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Brett Stimely) during his political trip to Dallas with the First Lady (Kat Steffens) on Nov. 22, 1963, and some of the ordinary people directly impacted on that fateful day, including the Parkland Memorial Hospital medical personnel (Colin Hanks, Marcia Gay Harden, Zac Efron, et al.) who tried to save the Addison-afflicted president, the Texas businessman (Paul Giamatti) who became traumatized after filming the motorcade and shooting on his Super 8 camera, the Secret Service agents (Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Welling, David Harbour, Nico Evers-Swindell, et al.) who fell short in their job to protect the "man," the FBI agent (Ron Livingston) who had been following the suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (Jeremy Strong) for 18 months prior to the murder, the grief-stricken assassin's brother Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Jr. (James Badge Dale) who was worried about the repercussions for his family, and the impact on his delusional mother (Jacki Weaver) who believed her son worked as a spy for the U.S. government.
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