- Starring: Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael Douglas, Michael J. Fox
- Summary: The world's most powerful man has met his match! Michael Douglas is the widower President wooing environmental lobbyist Annette Bening in this romantic hit by Rob Reiner. (Warner Bros.)
- Director: Rob Reiner
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance
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Positive: 15 out of 21
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Mixed: 6 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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100Watching The American President, I felt respect for the craft that went into it: the flawless re-creation of the physical world of the White House, the smart and accurate dialogue, the manipulation of the love story to tug our heartstrings.
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90All this is good fun -- some of which is anticipating the pained reaction from conservative Hollywood-hasslers. Director Rob Reiner has a fine smooth touch, Douglas is charismatic, Bening is scrumptious -- you want to put all these dream politicos in a doggy bag and take them home. [20 Nov 1995, p.28]
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60Genial and entertaining if not notably inspired. But its most interesting aspect turns out to be fantasies of another kind, pipe dreams about the American political system and where it could theoretically be headed.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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peterd10Flawless romantic fantasy with all of the pleasure of being inside the presidency - later to be turned into the West Wing.
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