The American President
(1995)
★ 6.5 IMDb · 808 votes
Year: 1995
Runtime: 113 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Роб Райнер
Cast: Майкл Дуглас, Аннетт Бенинг, Мартин Шин, Майкл Дж. Фокс, Anna Deavere Smith, Саманта Матис, Shawna Waldron, Дэвид Пэймер, Anne Haney, Ричард Дрейфус
Plot
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Andrew Shepherd is approaching the end of his first term as President of the United States. He's a widower with a young daughter and has proved to be popular with the public. His election seems assured. That is until he meets Sydney Ellen Wade, a paid political activist working for an environmental lobby group. He's immediately smitten with her and after several amusing attempts, they finally manage to go on a date (which happens to be a State dinner for the visiting President of France). His relationship with Wade opens the door for his prime political opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, to launch an attack on the President's character, something he could not do in the previous election as Shepherd's wife had only recently died.