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Overview

User Rating:
5.7/10   1,127 votes
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Director:
Writer:
David Himmelstein (written by)
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Release Date:
31 January 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
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:
AT LAST! ... more (13 total)

Cast

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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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Runtime:
111 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Writer David Himmelstein said that one day, he saw a row of television monitors playing political commercials for different candidates. He said the spots all looked the same to him, so he did research to find out why and what he discovered he put into the script. more
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Referenced in Sitting Pretty (1990) (V) more
Soundtrack:
THE STARS & STRIPES FOREVER more

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3 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
AT LAST! ..., 7 July 2003
Author: Johnnieb-2 from Bangor, Maine

...the doors opened and fresh air rushed in as a weary audience trudged sleepily from the theater to the parking lot.

"Power" is powerful medicine for those unable to get some sleep. Buy this as a CD or VHS and keep it in your bedroom for those nights when you are wide awake.

Those who liked the film did so because they find a political reason for it. It was written in the 1980s and apparently for no particular reason at all other than to make some quick bucks...which it did not.

Reviewers and public held the project in such low esteem that only a few critics and political zealots bother to comment on it.

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Is it just me, or is this rated awfully low? viewtifuljoe1010
Dated and predictable... hannahp1
Hilary for Governor of Washington State in 1986 psbate-1
Are there any photos or videos around?? samcarter-1
Please...a decent DVD would be nice. rickert
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