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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783141657
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783141653
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 59692
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 04, 1992
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When old school friends meet, they soon become lovers. Only problem is, he's running for President! Will love conquer all and leave him enough energy to conquer the voters? Only time and this hilarious comedy will tell.
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Rating:  - Running Mates
The movie was enjoyable, although the sound quality of the tape could have been better.
Rating: - Running Mates
Ed Harris is excellent as a Senator who wants to be President. Diane Keaton is good as the author of children's books who attracts the attention of the Senator, because he couldn't have her in high school???? She has some good lines that all of us would like to say when the political "handlers" try to stiffile her independent mouth. Keaton would be better if she would just stop playing her Anne Hall character in every film. Ed Begley is excellent as her excentric brother who is fearful of everything possible, because he lost his girlfriend. Ed Harris saves this film, as he often does, by acting like we would like for our Senators to act... with integrity.
Rating:  - grabbing headlines
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg is no stranger to films about politics, having made the Nixon era parody Nasty Habits . Here we get a Bill and Hillary Clinton-ish parallel featuring Ed Harris as a Presidential candidate and Diane Keaton as his fiance with a past. At first the HBO teleplay by A. L. Appling ( a pseudonymed Carole Eastman) is happy to present an amiable battle of the sexes comedy, giving Diane Keaton a wit which undercuts the perceived reactionary nature of politics as compromise. However things get serious when Harris' spin doctors uncover a pseudo-pornographic anti-Nixon film Keaton has participated when previously married to an "artist", which is seen as potentially damaging to Harris' position. When the film is screened the actress is clearly not Keaton and though it's a stretch to imagine Keaton doing the film, that is the point. When Harris is confronted by the "scandal" he delivers a speech to the media, denouncing their interest in Keaton's past activities as being irrelevant to his capability as a future President. Eastman here is touching on the perception of the voter, predating Clinton's Lewinsky scandal, and whether or not one believes the press' reaction to Harris' condemnation probably measures one's level of naivety/optimism/cynicism. The discovery of the film is a plot point which lifts the narrative when things threaten to collapse. The point of Keaton's outspokenness making her an inappropriate First Lady are sledgehammered home, with Keaton hating the media coverage ... Read More
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