Fresh
There is little of the gratuitous hysteria that usually mars Lumet's work, and David Himmelstein's busy script keeps things moving, though at the price of losing track of a couple of significant subplots.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Power
More seductive than sex… More addictive than any drug… More precious than gold. And one man can get it for you. For a price.
1986 · 1h 51m · R
Drama
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Overview
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
Director and cast
- Sidney Lumet Director
- Richard Gere as Pete St. John
- Denzel Washington as Arnold Billings
- Gene Hackman as Wilfred Buckley
- Julie Christie as Ellen Freeman
- Kate Capshaw as Sydnet Betterman
- E.G. Marshall as Senator Sam Hastings, Ohio
- J.T. Walsh as Jerome Cade
- Beatrice Straight Cast
- Fritz Weaver Cast
- E. Katherine Kerr Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
55%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie seems to be asking us to walk out of the theater shaking our heads in disillusionment, but I was more puzzled than disillusioned.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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