Synopsis
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.
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Cast
- Zac EfronJim Carrico
- Marcia Gay HardenDoris Nelson
- Paul GiamattiAbraham Zapruder
- Billy Bob ThorntonForrest Sorrels
- Jacki WeaverMarguerite Oswald
- Ron LivingstonJames Hosty
- Jeremy StrongLee Harvey Oswald
- James Badge DaleRobert Oswald
- Tom WellingRoy Kellerman
- Colin HanksDr. Malcom Perry
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Engrossing, quietly revelatory, and often profoundly moving as it retells a story we only thought we knew. - 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Parkland is a fascinating insider’s view of those fateful two days in November of 1963, when a president was murdered, his assassin was gunned down in custody and generations of conspiracies were born. - 75
Observer
A sobering, documentary-style film commemorating eyewitness accounts of what happened in the aftermath of the tragedy, some of them fresh as a new wound, all of them painful but vital to a deeper understanding of one of the darkest chapters in American history. - 62
Film.com
Parkland mines some interesting scenes, if not in an entirely coherent fashion, resolving as more of an interesting concept than a fully rendered and effective film. - 60
The Guardian
If the film finally doesn't tell us anything we did not already know, the approach makes a worn-out old tragedy feel supple and urgent. - 50
Slant Magazine
The Peter Landesman film's overt politics are minimal, aside from defaulting to the myth of John F. Kennedy as a martyr for...something. - 40
Time Out
The tone never stops waffling, and nothing truly revelatory ever emerges about those terrible few days in Texas. What we’re left with is the Disney theme-park version of history — all waxworks and weepiness. - 30
Variety
Granted, Landesman feels an obligation to history, but there’s something ponderously obvious about the way so many of these scenes are played.
