×
![]()
| |
| Movie Name : |
The Front Runner
|
| Cinema Type : |
Hollywood
|
| Release Date : |
21-Nov-2018( 5 years, 351 days ago)
|
| Directed By : |
Jason Reitman |
| Production House : |
Helen Estabrook,Aaron L. Gilbert,Jason Reitman |
| Genre : |
Biography |
| Lead Role : |
Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, Molly Ephraim
|
Rating:2/5
It seems so quaint in retrospect: the notion that a sex scandal could derail a political career. These days, there can be an audio recording of a candidate bragging about grabbing women’s genitalia and he can still be elected President of the United States. There can be evidence that he paid hush money to cover up extramarital affairs with porn stars and Playboy models. There can be all these damning details and more and he can still enjoy broad support from evangelicals.
Thirty years ago, however, it was a different time, which Jason Reitman explores with frustratingly erratic success in “The Front Runner.” Working from a script he co-wrote with Matt Bai and Jay Carson, based on Bai’s book All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, Reitman revisits the downfall of Gary Hart, the progressive Colorado senator who was on track to secure the Democratic nomination and probably the presidency in 1988.