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5.4/10   447 votes
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Writers (WGA):
Orson Welles (earlier screenplay) and
Oja Kodar (earlier screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
23 June 2000 (Spain) more
Genre:
Tagline:
You can't buy absolution...What you seek is something that can only be given. more
Plot:
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Muddled and Pointless Intrigue more (22 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

William Hurt ... William Blake Pellarin
Nigel Hawthorne ... Kim Mennaker

Miranda Richardson ... Dinah Pellarin

Irène Jacob ... Cela Brandini (as Irene jacob)
Ewan Stewart ... Kinzel

Gregg Henry ... Billy

Ron Livingston ... Sheldon Buckle
Jefferson Mays ... Garne Strickland

Jim Metzler ... Pacxy Barragan
Carmine Giovinazzo ... Young Billy
Thomas Patrick Kelly ... Young Blake
Mack Harrell ... Homer Dix

Lisette Bross ... B.C. Dix
F. Joseph Schulte ... Senator Jack Moorehead
Peggy Freisen ... Gigi Moorehead (as Peggy Friesen)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for some graphic sexuality, and for language and some violence.
Runtime:
104 min
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Aspect Ratio:
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Continuity: In the scene just after Blake (Hurt) and Brandini (Jacob) make love, she is still in bed and is trying to encourage Blake to come public with the truth. She suggests that she might expose him if he doesn't. Blake then yanks the bed covers off exposing her completely naked body. But in the next second, closeup, she is seen with something covering her from the waist down. more
Movie Connections:
References Campanadas a medianoche (1965) more

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Muddled and Pointless Intrigue, 22 February 2002
2/10
Author: aromatic-2 from New York, NY

Some interesting backgrounds and roots. A deliciously sinister performance by Hawthorne, and an earnest one by Hurt. And professional Murder-She-Wrote-killer-and/or-victim Gregg Henry is perfectly cast as Hurt's brother.

Too bad that the writing and direction are so miserable, and the flashbacks interjected so randomly and pointlessly that I couldn't follow it, and didn't care to.

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