All the King's Men
(2006)
★ 5.8 IMDb · 344 votes
Year: 2006
Runtime: 128 мин
Country: Germany, United States of America
Director: Стивен Заиллян
Cast: Шон Пенн, Джуд Лоу, Энтони Хопкинс, Кейт Уинслет, Марк Руффало, Патрисия Кларксон, Джеймс Гандольфини, Джэки Ерл Хейли, Кэти Бейкер, Talia Balsam
Plot
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.
In the 1950s, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark (Sean Penn) is elected Governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy (Jackie Earle Haley); the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden (Jude Law); the lobbyist Tiny Duffy (James Gandolfini); and his mistress Sadie Burke (Patricia Clarkson), to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin (Sir Anthony Hopkins) supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.