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Assassins (2004)

Overview

Assasins depicts nine misfit men and women who attempted (four of them successfully) to assassinate American Presidents. While every nation has its assassins and would-be assassins, only in America, the authors suggest, do disturbed and disturbing individuals act not because they hope to influence national politics, but because they are wrapped up in a malignant sense of entitlement. Feeling betrayed by the failed promise of American democracy and the American Dream, they strike out at the symbol for America: the American President. Assassins spans several musical styles and many decades in a dizzying series of musical and theatrical inventions that culminate in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Length 104 minutes

Actors

Neil Patrick Harris | Anne L. Nathan | Michael Cerveris | Mario Cantone | Becky Ann Baker | Denis O'Hare | Brandon Wardell | Mary Catherine Garrison | Marc Kudisch | Alexander Gemignani | Kendra Kassebaum | James Stacy Barbour | Jeffrey Kuhn