"What went down on the way to the top."
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
จอห์น ทราโวลตา
Jack Stanton
เอ็มมา ทอมสัน
Susan Stanton
Billy Bob Thornton
Richard Jemmons
Adrian Lester
Henry Burton
Maura Tierney
Daisy Green
Paul Guilfoyle
Howard Ferguson
Larry Hagman
Gov. Fred Picker
เคธี เบตส์
Libby Holden
Diane Ladd
Mamma Stanton
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
There is something quite worrying about this depiction of an American Presidential nomination campaign - it is plausible... John Travolta ("Jack Stanton") positively oozes charisma - in all it's guises - as he schmoozes, charms, cheats and lies his way through a campaign that simultaneously sees him pat babies on their heads whilst stealing their lollipops... Adrian Lester is the enthusiastic, but naive, campaign manager who together with a feisty Kathy Bates is charged with getting their man into the final race with Emma Thompson as the supportive wife who has to tolerate all that the campaign - and her husband's obvious peccadillos - throw at them. The delivery is fast-paced, witty and authentic; the performances - especially the loyal but principled Bates - really reinforce the ultimate message that Joe Klein's story is trying to convey; and Mike Nicholls manages to keep the whole thing from becoming too overtly Clinton-esque! Adrian Lester is a little out of his depth, though, Emma Thompson isn't on her best form either and though it is nice to see old "J.R" on the screen again, Larry Hagman as a senator in the right place at the right time but with more skeletons in his closet than Roger Corman, doesn't really cut it either. It's also far too long, and struggles when Travolta is away from the action... Certainly entertaining, though...
จะเกิดอะไรขึ้นเมื่อผู้สมัครชิงตำแหน่งประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐอเมริกาตกเป็นข่าวล่วงละเมิดทางเพศก่อนวันเลือกตั้งแค่ 11 วัน เดือดร้อนถึงทีมงานเบื้องหลังท่านประธานาธิบดีต้องหาทางสร้างข่าวลือใหญ่โตอะไรสักอย่างเพื่อมากลบคดีล่วงละเมิดทางเพศให้หลุดจากกระแสไป และพวกเขาก็สรุปกันได้ที่มีอเมริกาจะทำสงครามกับอัลเบเนีย แต่จะทำยังไงให้คนทั้งประเทศเชื่อล่ะ เขาจึงต้องไปหาผู้อำนวยการสร้างมือดีให้มาสร้างเรื่องราวให้สมจริงน่าเชื่อถือ
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ผู้บริหารฝ่ายโฆษณาที่ประสบความสำเร็จพบว่าชีวิตที่อิสระของเขาต้องจบลงเมื่อพ่อและแม่ของเขายุติชีวิตแต่งงานที่ดำเนินมาอย่างยาวนานของพวกเขา
Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
After playing George W. Bush on Saturday Night Live for many years, funny man Will Ferrell brings his impression to Broadway to send up the 43rd President of the United States of America.
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