Summary:
Written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman, this is an amusingly vicious squint at the American electoral process. Michael Murphy plays Jack Tanner, Democratic Presidential nominee. Also featured are Cynthia Nixon as Jack's teenage daughter Alex, and Pamela Reed as campaign manager T. J. Cavanaugh. Despite the mocking nature of the material, the "cinema verite"... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Michael Murphy - (Jack Tanner)
Pamela Reed - (T.J. Cavanaugh)
Cynthia Nixon - (Alex Tanner)
Daniel Jenkins
Kevin J. O'Connor - (Taggerty)
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Review:
One of director Robert Altman's more audacious experiments was this mini-series, originally produced for cable television, in which Altman, Doonesbury scribe Garry Trudeau, and actor Michael Murphy devised fictional presidential candidate Jack Tanner, a vague, stoic, all-American Democrat with his sights set on the White House. Beyon... Continue >>


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