Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate story for the paper in the days leading up to the 1972 presidential election. The story chronicles the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from the former's initial report on the Watergate break-in through the resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and the revelation of the Nixon tapes by Alexander Butterfield in 1973. It relates the events behind the major stories the duo wrote for the Post, naming some sources who had previously refused to be identified for their initial articles, notably Hugh Sloan. It also gives detailed accounts of Woodward's secret meetings with his source Deep Throat whose identity was kept secret for over 30 years. Only in 2005 was Deep Throat revealed to be former FBI Associate Director W. Mark Felt.
This movie just goes to show you that even the United States government can be this corrupt. People will do absolutely anything, and I mean anything, to have some money in their pocket. Although they are reporters, Woodward and Bernstein showed a lot of passion in getting behind what really happened. It's a shame that it takes newspaper reporters to show some justice in this country. Corruption is a huge thing in this world, money is everything.
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