A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor. Henry Fonda and the roles he played merge into a dazzling and conflicted figure. A very private man who thought he had “no good answers to anything” becomes the unlikely motor of a parallel history. His voice, recorded during his last interview in 1981, and his onscreen avatars guide us through America’s past and present – on a road trip from the village of Fonda, NY, across the Midwest to the Pacific; from 1651 to the 1980s and the presidency of another movie actor. It takes many places and times and characters to imagine an invisible republic – the United States of Fonda.
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Cast
Henry Fonda Self (archive footage)
Robert De Niro Self (archive footage)
Jane Fonda Self (archive footage)
Peter Fonda Self (archive footage)
Jodie Foster Self (archive footage)
John Hinckley Jr. Self (archive footage)
John Hurt Self (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage)
Robert Redford Self (archive footage)
Sissy Spacek Self (archive footage)Screenings in Brussels
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