The Martha Mitchell Effect

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Brenda K Fabulous subject matter and the clips of Martha were 5-star. Unfortunately the various audio tapes were impossible for me to understand. Why weren't subtitles put on the screen when the Nixon tapes were being played? I gave up watching as the garbled parts were too frustrating. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/22/23 Full Review Catherine O This film is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" all over again—only carried to the highest levels of government during the 1972 re-election campaign of Richard Nixon. It's only forty minutes long, but this documentary vindicates a woman who was sidelined and maligned for telling the truth about the Watergate break-in. Martha Mitchell scooped Deep Throat and Woodward and Bernstein, but Nixon and her own husband (Attorney General John Mitchell) worked to defame her as a loud-mouthed hysterical female for doing so. This film shows that Nixon was even more of a criminal than we already knew. Watch it. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Kevin L Martha Mitchell was a for real bada##. What a lotta backbone that woman had. Made her dirtbag husband who 'stood for law and order and what's right in this world' look like the dopey criminal he was, but also about half the standup defender of the good she was. And called Nixon out for who and what he really was. Seriously, did they think they might lose that election!?!? 3.7 stars Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/01/23 Full Review Pub. A It is a great reminder of how often those in power gaslight those who try to tell the truth. We have seen this phenomenon more often recently. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Jona I While it accomplishes its main intention of exploiting Nixon's team's silencing of Martha Mitchell, it mostly accomplishes calling into question the character of Mitchell, her ego, her incredible lack of healthy boundaries, and her lack of actual ability, which almost invokes sympathy for the Nixon administration for having to put up with her -- which I don't think was at all the filmmaker's intention. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review s r Interesting subject, but it raised a lot more issues than solved. It's almost like the director came across the issue and decided to turn it into a 40 min documentary just because of how crazy a topic it was. It was on Netflix. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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