The Contender
Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot.
Overview
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.
- Budget
- $20,000,000
- Revenue
- $22,428,990
- Production
- Cinerenta, Cinecontender Internationale, Battleplan Productions, SE8 Group
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Cast
Joan Allen
Laine Hanson
Gary Oldman
Shelly Runyon
Jeff Bridges
President Jackson Evans
Christian Slater
Reginald Webster
Sam Elliott
Kermit Newman
William L. Petersen
Jack Hathaway
Saul Rubinek
Jerry Tolliver
Philip Baker Hall
Oscar Billings
Robin Thomas
William Hanson
Kathryn Morris
Paige Willomina
Mike Binder
Lewis Hollis
Kristen Shaw
Fiona Hathaway
Douglas Urbanski
Makerowitz
Angelica Page
Dierdra
Joseph Lyle Taylor
Paul Smith
Doug Roberts
Congressman Harding
Mariel Hemingway
Cynthia Lee
Anthony Booth
Peter Crenshaw
Irene Ziegler
Maggie Runyon
Justin Dray
Stagehand
Crew
- Director
- Rod Lurie
- Writers
- Rod Lurie
- Producers
- Marc Frydman,James Spies,Willi Bär,Douglas Urbanski
- Cinematography
- Denis Maloney
- Composer
- Larry Groupé
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CinemaSerf
August 28, 2023
Joan Allen is an American senator who is nominated to replace a recently deceased Vice-President by Jeff Bridges ("President Evans"). Once her confirmation hearing begins, she finds her rather interesting private life under the scrutiny of hostile committee chairman Gary Oldman who is determined to expose every aspect of her life - past and present - to the public. Oscar-nominated Allen is good as the feisty, intelligent, senator but the rest of this is all rather lacklustre and frequently overl…