Power (1986)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 110 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Richard Gere, Julie Christie and Gene Hackman
IMDb score:
5,7 (3.733)
Releasedate: 31 January 1986
Power plot
"More seductive than sex… More addictive than any drug… More precious than gold. And one man can get it for you. For a price."
Pete St. John is a powerful political adviser, with clients across the country. When his close friend and client Sam Hastings, an Ohio senator, decides to retire, John must assist in the election campaign of mysterious businessman Jerome Cade; who wants to succeed Sam as senator.
Actors and actresses
Pete St. John
Arnold Billings
Wilfred Buckley
Ellen Freeman
Sydney Betterman
Senator Sam Hastings
Jerome Cade
Claire Hastings
Wallace Furman
Irene Furman
Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13237 messages
- 11128 votes
A mediocre film about a successful political advisor who starts working for his friend's successor. It builds up a lot of storylines, but the further development is rather dull. The cast includes quite a few familiar names. Not exactly Sidney Lumet's best film, and better films have been made on the topic of media power in politics.
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blurp194
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- 5543 messages
- 4226 votes
We! Together! have achieved a historic moment in politics!
It might not be a particularly good film; the story is a bit long-winded and wanders too much into side issues. I also didn't think Gere fit his role very well, and Washington was actually too young to be convincing. It was nice to see both of them in early roles, roles they really had to dig deep into and put their best foot forward for. This is against veterans like Hackman and Christie, who seemingly can pull off any role without Christie's helmet-like hairdo fading even a millimeter.
Still, the ending is thought-provoking, and then it suddenly becomes clear why Lumet wanted to make this film. Is it an emotion that is timeless, or is it a stroke of genius, or is it the dream of a better world that this ending culminates in? Either way, it's perhaps even more fitting today than it was in 1986.
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