The Ides of March (2011)
Directed by George Clooney
Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.
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This tale of political compromise is something that we've all pretty much seen before, starting with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, speeding through my high school classroom screenings of The Candidate, and lasting all the way up through the remake of All the King's Men.
Think of Aaron Sorkin’s “The American President” (and the years of “The West Wing” that followed, on TV).
She roars through this political drama, as glamorously cynical as his 2011 directorial effort The Ides of March, and plays a morally conflicted Washington lobbyist similar to the guilty corporate fixer he rode to an Oscar nomination in Michael Clayton.
Amidst adaptations, remakes, prequels and sequels, political thrillers (“Argo,” “The Ides of March“) are hard to come by these days.
Like that was going to happen in a movie produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov ( Syriana , The Ides of March ) anyway.