There are many- Parallax View, All the President's Men, Bulworth, etc. But I'd have to say my favorite is JFK. Not that I agree with his conclusions, but the way it's presented is fascinating. Truly innovative film beyond the few heavy-handed segments.
Weird that Henry Fonda made two political movies two years apart, as I was going to suggest The Best Man, just because it seemed like a fun, thinly veiled satire of RFK, LBJ and maybe Hubert Humphrey. JFK has probably the best cast of this generation, but the more I think about Garrisson predicting RFK's death, the scene where his ADA is shooting the rifle and that weirdass gay fascist party scene the more irritable I get. All the President's Men is just Redford and Hoffman at their peak.
If All the President's Men is on TV, it's hard not to change the channel and watch that movie. All the performances in that film are fantastic.
Anyone who wonders why the Iraq Wars have gone the way they did, should be forced to watch Three Kings and write a paper on it.
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Liked the Contender. Oldman was perfect, but could have done without the Law and Order subplot about the other potential nominee. I thought between that and Mind of the Married Man, Mike Binder was about to blow up.
Good call. Langella was great, and Rockwell was amusing. That British guy should just pull a Stallone and do Tony Blair/David Frost movies for the next twenty years. I think the leads in both this and Nixon did a great job portraying him, but this one might have been a little more grounded in reality.
