Directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin, this Romantic-Comedy tells the story of a President who falls in love a lobbyist. If that sounds like a controversial idea, then you are thinking along the same lines as all the characters in this movie. But love does conquer all, and the movie shows us why President Andrew Shephard would be better than any President we've ever had.
The movie has an all-star cast including Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael J. Fox and Martin Sheen. A couple cool things about this movie is that is actually has two spinoff TV shows. Michael J. Fox's character is basically the same one he would play in Spin City for years, and while Martin Sheen's character is different from his future President Bartlett from The West Wing, that show clearly is a spin-off of this movie due to Sorkin's writing
Richard Dreyfuss plays an angry and opportunistic Republican who plans to use the President's new found love affair to call his values into question, and it starts to work since Shepard doesn't respond to the personal attacks, until the end of course when he slam dunks everyone with the a classic Sorkin style speech.
As a political junkie this movie speaks to me, and it also speaks to me as a person with one of the best romantic stories ever.
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