1986 · drama · political · media
Power
Directed by Sidney Lumet1h 51m1986
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...
Our read: Power (1986) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · political · media entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
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