The Front Runner

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Front Runner is a very solid political drama but not a must-see

. The film follows the rise and fall of Senator Hart, who captured the imagination of young voters and was considered the overwhelming front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination when his campaign was sidelined by the story of an extramarital relationship with Donna Rice.

This same president once bragged that he could walk down fifth avenue, shoot someone dead in broad daylight and not lose a single vote – and on this, at least, he was probably entirely right. The idea of holding a public official to certain moral standards has, in the past few years, eroded to such an extent that a film that explores such a concept seems, in turn, nostalgic, obsolete and like very far-fetched science fiction. and, ultimately, its biggest downfall.

She may have made a colossally stupid mistake but this bright and promising young woman is a casualty of the growing war between the media and those in and/ or seeking power and the film is so effective in these scenes that it’s hard not to wish that the whole thing was about her.

 

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