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Power (1986)

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User Rating: 5.6/10 (862 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Sidney Lumet
Writer:
David Himmelstein (written by)
Release Date:
31 January 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
More seductive than sex... More addictive than any drug... More precious than gold. And one man can get it for you. For a price. more
Plot:
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Good movie, about political image-makers, but ... so what?? more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Richard Gere ... Pete St. John

Julie Christie ... Ellen Freeman

Gene Hackman ... Wilfred Buckley

Kate Capshaw ... Sydnet Betterman

Denzel Washington ... Arnold Billing

E.G. Marshall ... Senator Sam Hastings, Ohio
Beatrice Straight ... Claire Hastings
Fritz Weaver ... Wallace Furman, New Mexico Gubernatorial Candidate
Michael Learned ... Governor Andrea Stannard, Washington

J.T. Walsh ... Jerome Cade, Ohio Senatorial Candidate

E. Katherine Kerr ... Irene Furman
Polly Rowles ... Lucille DeWitt
Matt Salinger ... Phillip Aarons, Independent Ohio Senatorial Candidate

Tom Mardirosian ... Sheikh
Omar Torres ... Roberto Cepeda, Presidential Candidate
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Additional Details

Runtime:
111 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Armonk, New York, USA more
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Trivia:
When this film premiered at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, reels 3 and 4 were sequentially reversed by Sundance staffer and IATSE projectionist David Nelson. Most critics and viewers said that they didn't notice the mistake in what they called an otherwise disappointing film. One of the film's makers demanded that the incomplete premiere be stopped and it wasn't rescheduled, the only such film in festival history to do so. more
Movie Connections:
Features "The New Price Is Right" (1972) more
Soundtrack:
THE STARS & STRIPES FOREVER more

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Good movie, about political image-makers, but ... so what??, 29 July 2003
Author: TxMike from Houston, Tx, USA, Earth

Perhaps this film would have hit me harder in 1986, but now, with so many movies and so much news reporting about the inner workings of politics and image-makers, I watched it on DVD (loaned by Ron and Evelyn) and came away thinking, "so what?" There really isn't anything new or Earth-shaking. Gere is good as the hot-shot political consultant who gets high dollars to get candidates elected to offices at various levels all over the USA and even Central and South America. He tells them, "do what I tell you and after you get into office, you can do whatever you want." I got the feeling that the movie is very authentic but has no great impact when it was over. The critic Ebert has a very fair and complete review. It's median IMDb vote of '6' is about right.

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