18½

[Opens May 27 in theaters.] When an ambitious White House transcriber (Willa Fitzgerald) goes with an anxious journalist (John Magaro) in 1974 to a Maryland motel run by its eye-patch-wearing owner (Richard Kind) to listen to the alleged missing 18½ minutes of Nixon's infamous Watergate scandal tape in Dan Mirvish's award-winning, factually inspired, slow-paced, quirky, humorous, bizarre, twist-filled, star-dotted (Bruce Campbell, Jon Cryer, Ted Raimi, Elle Schneider, and Lloyd Kaufman), 88-minute, 2021 political thriller, they end up meeting a mysterious, interracial couple (Vondie Curtis-Hall and Catherine Curtin) and a few anti-war hippies (Sullivan Jones, Alanna Saunders, Marija Juliette Abney, and Claire Saunders) and from then on their investigation and evening does not go as planned.
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