{4.5\/5} “You’re the future of the Democratic Party, and you always will be.”<\/p>\n
Governor Hathaway attempted to rescue a woman whose car plunged into a lake, but he was unsuccessful. Riding a wave of popularity, he thought the president would nominate him for vice president. The president instead nominated Governor Hanson, a woman. But there are forces at work who will stop at nothing to make sure that she doesn’t become vice president.<\/p>\n
The Contender<\/strong> was released in 2000.<\/p>\n It’s about US politics and how a scandal may or may not destroy a career. It’s about people who stand for principles, and people who make deals.<\/p>\n Bridges, Allen, and Oldman are fascinating to watch as always. Lots of stories about politics have been told, but this one is worth telling.<\/p>\n The music is by Larry Group\u00e9 (Nothing But the Truth<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Jeff Bridges (True Grit<\/strong><\/a>) plays the president and Joan Allen (Pleasantville<\/strong>) plays Laine Hanson. Sam Elliott (The Big Lebowski<\/strong>) and Saul Rubinek (the TV show Frasier<\/strong>) play two of the president’s advisers. Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/a>) plays the person in charge of the vice presidential hearings. Christian Slater (The Name of the Rose<\/strong>), Philip Baker Hall (Bruce Almighty<\/strong>), and Kathryn Morris (the TV show Cold Case<\/strong>) are also on board.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Rod Lurie (creator of the TV show Commander in Chief<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “You’re the future of the Democratic Party, and you always will be.” Governor Hathaway attempted to rescue a woman whose car plunged into a lake, but he was unsuccessful. Riding a wave of popularity, he thought the president would nominate him for vice president. The president instead nominated Governor Hanson, a woman. But there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}