The film spans Cohn's life from childhood through his initial rise to power as McCarthy's right-hand man in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings and his eventual public discrediting a month before his death in 1986 from AIDS. It is told mostly in Flashback (literary technique) as Cohn lies dying at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, hallucination that his many enemies (from Robert Kennedy to Ethel Rosenberg, a convicted Communist espionage he sent to the electric chair) are haunting him. It concerns aspects of Cohn's life such as his the closet homosexuality and the measure of his culpability in the "Second Red Scare" of the 1950s. While the movie portrays Cohn in a decidedly unsympathetic light, it also depicts episodes in his life, such as the death of his beloved mother, in which he showed a more tender, compassionate side.
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