Directed by:
Jason ReitmanCinematography:
Eric SteelbergComposer:
Rob SimonsenCast:
Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Mamoudou Athie, Molly Ephraim, Kaitlyn Dever, Alfred Molina, Josh Brener, Bill Burr, Chris Coy, Oliver Cooper (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
With Thank You for Smoking and Up in the Air, writer-director Jason Reitman displayed a rare gift for weaving charged political and social themes into intelligent and entertaining comedy-dramas. His latest, written with Matt Bai and Jay Carson, takes on the 1988 tabloid scandal that derailed Gary Hart’s presidential campaign. Hugh Jackman is remarkably convincing as the senator who is perhaps too interested in ideas and policies to succeed in a changing media culture. Vera Farmiga is quietly heartbreaking as his wife; J.K. Simmons plays the campaign manager unable to persuade the candidate to turn himself into a TV commodity. (Telluride Film Festival)
(more)Cast
![Hugh Jackman](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/828/163828254_a576fe.jpg)
Hugh Jackman
Australia
Best movies:
The Prestige (2006)
Prisoners (2013)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
![Vera Farmiga](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/063/167063616_c63c23.jpg)
Vera Farmiga
USA
Best movies:
The Departed (2006)
When They See Us (2019) (series)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
![J.K. Simmons](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/437/164437911_7e0108.jpg)
J.K. Simmons
USA
Best movies:
Klaus (2019)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Whiplash (2014)
![Mamoudou Athie](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/726/161726128_8b672c.jpg)
Mamoudou Athie
Mauritania
Best movies:
The Get Down (2016) (series)
Elemental (2023)
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
![Molly Ephraim](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/188/158188422_44a216.jpg)
Molly Ephraim
USA
Best movies:
The Front Runner (2018)
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Gravy (2015)
![Kaitlyn Dever](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/748/163748099_e01913.jpg)
Kaitlyn Dever
USA
Best movies:
Dopesick (2021) (series)
Short Term 12 (2013)
Men, Women & Children (2014)
![Alfred Molina](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/778/162778232_cc0818.png)
Alfred Molina
UK
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Dead Man (1995)
Magnolia (1999)
![Josh Brener](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/680/162680747_71c96f.jpg)
Josh Brener
USA
Best movies:
All My Life (2020)
The Belko Experiment (2016)
The Internship (2013)
![Bill Burr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/559/158559743_b40c9b.jpg)
Bill Burr
USA
Best movies:
Bill Burr: Let It Go (2010) (TV movie)
Bill Burr: You People Are All the Same (2012) (TV movie)
Leo (2023)
![Chris Coy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/201/161201107_2f3f5b.jpg)
Chris Coy
USA
Best movies:
Trial by Fire (2018)
The Peripheral (2022) (series)
Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
![Oliver Cooper](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/852/160852690_bb4e08.jpg)
Oliver Cooper
USA
Best movies:
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Project X (2012)
The Hangover Part III (2013)
![Tommy Dewey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/491/491584_778973.jpg)
Tommy Dewey
USA
Best movies:
Step Up: Miami Heat (2012)
Book Club (2018)
17 Again (2009)
![Sara Paxton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/277/277812_3ef0a0.jpg)
Sara Paxton
USA
Best movies:
Barbarian (2022)
Cheap Thrills (2013)
Liar Liar (1997)
![Spencer Garrett](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/440/162440799_815704.png)
Spencer Garrett
USA
Best movies:
The X Files: Closure (1999) (video compilation)
The Comey Rule (2020) (series)
The Crow (1994)
![Ari Graynor](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/277/277298_ab3966.jpg)
Ari Graynor
USA
Best movies:
An American Crime (2007)
Mystic River (2003)
Conviction (2010)
![Toby Huss](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/391/164391619_266ada.jpg)
Toby Huss
USA
Best movies:
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Little Boy (2015)
42 (2013)
![Mike Judge](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270124_090b0b.jpg)
Mike Judge
Ecuador
Best movies:
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Jackass 3D (2010)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
![Alex Karpovsky](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/942/161942022_eb1cc5.jpg)
Alex Karpovsky
USA
Best movies:
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Supporting Characters (2012)
![John Bedford Lloyd](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/074/162074463_0f1012.jpg)
John Bedford Lloyd
USA
Best movies:
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Philadelphia (1993)
The Abyss (1989)
![Jen Landon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/235/166235850_f9f3dd.jpg)
Jen Landon
USA
Best movies:
The Front Runner (2018)
I Spit on Your Grave 3: Vengeance Is Mine (2015)