Number: 68

IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (36863 votes)

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Also known as:: The American President

Country: USA, 114 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, French

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Director: Rob Reiner

Cast: Michael Douglas (as President Andrew Shepherd), Annette Bening (as Sydney Ellen Wade), Martin Sheen (as A.J. MacInerney), Michael J. Fox (as Lewis Rothschild), Anna Deavere Smith (as Robin McCall), Samantha Mathis (as Janie Basdin), Shawna Waldron (as Lucy Shepherd), David Paymer (as Leon Kodak), Richard Dreyfuss (as Senator Bob Rumson), Nina Siemaszko (as Beth Wade)

Medium: Original DVD

Plot Outline: Andrew Shepherd is approaching the end of his first term as President of the United States. He's a widower with a young daughter and has proved to be popular with the public. His election seems assured. That is until he meets Sydney Ellen Wade, a paid political activist working for an environmental lobby group. He's immediately smitten with her and after several amusing attempts, they finally manage to go on a date (which happens to be a State dinner for the visiting President of France). His relationship with Wade opens the door for his prime political opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, to launch an attack on the President's character, something he could not do in the previous election as Shepherd's wife had only recently died.

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