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Power
- Director: Sidney Lumet
- Writer: David Himmelstein
- Producer: Wolfgang Glattes; Reene Schisgal
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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. In parallel and unaware of the potential dangers, he proceeds to unravel the mystery surrounding Hastings dropping out with the aide of his ex-wife, a prominent Washington-based journalist. But interests more powerful than local arm wrestling are at stake and things start getting awry.
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Cast & Characters
Richard Gere as Pete St. John;
Julie Christie as Ellen Freeman;
Gene Hackman as Wilfred Buckley;
Kate Capshaw as Sydnet Betterman;
Denzel Washington as Arnold Billing;
E.G. Marshall as Senator Sam Hastings,
Ohio; Beatrice Straight as Claire Hastings;
Fritz Weaver as Wallace Furman, New Mexico Gubernatorial Candidate;
Michael Learned as Governor Andrea Stannard, Washington;
J.T. Walsh as Jerome Cade, Ohio Senatorial Candidate;
E. Katherine Kerr as Irene Furman;
Polly Rowles as Lucille DeWitt;
Matt Salinger as Phillip Aarons, Independent Ohio Senatorial Candidate;
Tom Mardirosian as Sheikh;
Omar Torres as Roberto Cepeda, Presidential Candidate