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THE FRONT RUNNER The May Far Hotel Gala | BFI London Film Festival 2018

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The star and director of The Front Runner talk about the film at its LFF 2018 May Fair Hotel Gala.

Democratic candidate Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman) was the man to beat in the 1988 American Presidential campaign. Handsome, whip-smart, principled and with really great hair, he led George W Bush in the polls by double digits. America loved him, yet that all that changed in a week. Breaking unwritten rules on the personal discretions allowed politicians, the Miami Herald staked out Hart’s Washington apartment to expose his long-rumoured extramarital affairs, this one with beautiful blond Donna Rice. Following suit, other media camped outside his house, pursuing the candidate’s wife and daughter (Vera Farmiga and Kaitlyn Dever). Based on Matt Bai’s exposé All the Truth is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, Reitman’s film centres on this extraordinary week. But this satisfyingly multi-layered script also probes Hart’s own attitudes – the sense of male entitlement that made him blithely unable to recognise how his behaviour would hurt the women involved. With J.K. Simmons shining as Hart’s campaign manager in an excellent ensemble (standouts also include Farmiga, Dever and Molly Ephraim, as one of the few women on Hart’s campaign team), this is a cracking, top-class political drama.

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