Why can't the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
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Classical in form, contemporary, effortless and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Michael DouglasAndrew Shepherd
- Annette BeningSydney Ellen Wade
- Martin SheenA.J. MacInerney
- Michael J. FoxLewis Rothschild
- Anna Deavere SmithRobin McCall
- Samantha MathisJanie Basdin
- Shawna WaldronLucy Shepherd
- David PaymerLeon Kodak
- Anne HaneyMrs. Chapil
- Richard DreyfussSenator Rumson
Crew
- Rob ReinerDirector
- Aaron SorkinWriter
- John SealeDirector of Photography
- Marc ShaimanOriginal Music Composer
- Robert LeightonEditor
- Rob ReinerProducer
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