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Title: The Contender (2000)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Gary Oldman | ... | Shelly Runyon | |
| Joan Allen | ... | Laine Hanson | |
| Jeff Bridges | ... | President Jackson Evans | |
| Christian Slater | ... | Reginald Webster | |
| Sam Elliott | ... | Kermit Newman | |
| William Petersen | ... | Jack Hathaway | |
| Saul Rubinek | ... | Jerry Tolliver | |
| Philip Baker Hall | ... | Oscar Billings | |
| Mike Binder | ... | Lewis Hollis | |
| Robin Thomas | ... | William Hanson | |
| Mariel Hemingway | ... | Cynthia Charlton Lee | |
| Kathryn Morris | ... | Paige Willomina | |
| Kristen Shaw | ... | Fiona Hathaway | |
| Douglas Urbanski | ... | Makerowitz | |
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Noah Fryrear | ... | Timmy |
A political thriller about Laine Hanson, a Senator who is nominated to become Vice President following the death of the previous office holder. During the confirmation process, Laine is the victim of a vicious attack on her personal life in which stories of sexual deviancy are spread. She is torn as to whether she should fight back, or stick to her high principles and refuse to comment on the allegations. Written by Ted Johnson
Greetings again from the darkness. Director Rod Lurie is living my fantasy. After a career as a movie critic, he is now directing some of Hollywood's best (and under-utilized) actors and actresses. This little thriller is fun to watch thanks mostly to the skills of those on the screen. All of these actors should work more ... SHARE your talent. Jeff Bridges is a very pompous, yet charming, smooth talking president. I assume the list to play the president was short, thanks to a couple of script lines about Clinton. Joan Allen is excellent as the cool senator with the lurid past (?) who is nominated for the VP slot. Gary Oldman, who continues to reinvent the role of CREEP, steals every scene he is in. Of course, this happens in all of his movies! It is always nice to see Sam Elliott and William Petersen on screen. And I guess Christian Slater is trying to salvage a career after the disastrous "Very Bad Things". He has lost some smugness and tempered his Jack Nicholson dialect. My only disappointment with the movie was in the script. Although I love the subject matter and the issues raised, I kept waiting for the shoe to drop on Gary Oldman's charater's deep, dark secret. Jeff Bridges stifling his political career seem quite the letdown. Would have really enjoyed a few more plot twists to really test the audience and cast. My tidbit for this one comes from the career of Sam Elliott. Next time you are watching "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", check out a young Sam Elliott in the early card playing scene. Also, William Petersen's power-hungry wife in "The Contender" is played by Kristen Shaw, a carry-over from Rod Lurie's film, "Deterrence".