LBJ (2017) Reviews & Ratings

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LBJ reviews

LBJ holds a 6.4/10 average from 184 TMDB ratings.

Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, stepped up to take the main job. This biopic stars Woody Harrelson as Johnson, and tells the story of LBJ as Vice President under Kennedy. Other than the tragic circumstances from which he inherited the role, when compared with his predecessor, JFK, and his eventual successor, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson had an uneventful presid…
— wizzardss (5/10)

Every now and again you get an IMDB moderator that strikes down anything political that he doesn't agree with... ... in this case it's saying that LBJ wasn't a great movie and that he wasn't a great president. This is the president that took out his manhood when the press asked him why we were still in Vietnam. This was the president that tried to force an astronaut's wife with a speech impediment to appear with him…
— GenerationofSwine (1/10)

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

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