Product Details

• Actors: Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas
• Directors: Jerry Schatzberg
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: May 30, 2000
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300182231
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,137 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Political Film Ever, March 15, 2004

By A Customer

This is the best political film ever made. Other films distort, simplify or just plain get wrong what federal politics is like at the highest levels. As one who used to work in the White House, I can tell you that this is the only film that understands and reveals what the game is really like.

This is the best film Alan Alda ever made, and Meryl Streep and Rip Torn are both very strong as well. This film MUST be reissued in DVD! Criterion Collection--are you listening? Please!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super-great, October 2, 1999

By A Customer

This overlooked gem may be both Streep and Alda's greatest film. As one to whom politics is both life and life's work, I can counsel you that this is one of the most realistic political films ever, not to mention one of the most enjoyable. See it and be convinced. Also, don't miss Rip Torn--I once worked for a Senator just like the character he plays!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest political satire/drama of all time, January 25, 1999

By	Joseph L Kremer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA) - See all my reviews

There is no doubt that this is a great movie. It engages its audience and provides them with an experience that will surely stand as a film that will inspire you to pull through the Doldrums of a hard day or if you're going through a difficult time in life, this will give you hope at the other end of the tunnel. It concerns a young liberal senator by the name of Joe Tynan (Alan Alda in his hreatest performance ever besides Hawkeye on M*A*S*H ) who has everything. A beautiful wife (Barbara Harris), children, and happiness. But he has a fling with his attractive female partner (Meryl Streep) and his life is literally going to fall apart. Eventually, his wife finds out and she learns to understand her husband's troubles and I feel, that at the resolution, she forgives him and gives him another chance. But there is fireworks between Joe and another senator friend because he testified against him in a case in which he lead just to earn him some publicity.