All the President's Men

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Fincher's obsessive, unresolved hunt for a killer channels the same faith in dogged research and dead ends, stretched into paranoid true-crime dread.

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Cast

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  Dustin HoffmanCarl Bernstein
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  Robert RedfordBob Woodward
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  Jack WardenHarry Rosenfeld
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  Martin BalsamHoward Simons
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  Hal HolbrookDeep Throat
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  Jason RobardsBen Bradlee
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  Jane AlexanderBookkeeper
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  Meredith BaxterDebbie Sloan
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  Ned BeattyDardis
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  Stephen CollinsHugh Sloan
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  Penny FullerSally Aiken
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  John McMartinForeign Editor

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