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Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Theatrical
Nov 17, 1995
DVD / Blu-ray
Aug 31, 1999
Box Office
$107.9M
Budget
$62.0M
Return
1.7x
Theaters
2
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
Castle Rock Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises
Cast
Full credits →M
Michael Douglas
Andrew Shepherd
A
Annette Bening
Sydney Ellen Wade
M
Martin Sheen
A.J. MacInerney
M
Michael J. Fox
Lewis Rothschild
A
Anna Deavere Smith
Robin McCall
S
Samantha Mathis
Janie Basdin
S
Shawna Waldron
Lucy Shepherd
D
David Paymer
Leon Kodak
A
Anne Haney
Mrs. Chapil
R
Richard Dreyfuss
Senator Rumson
N
Nina Siemaszko
Beth Wade
Wendie Malick
Susan Sloan
B
Beau Billingslea
Agent Cooper
G
Gail Strickland
Esther MacInerney
J
Joshua Malina
David
C
Clement von Franckenstein
President D'Astier
E
Efrat Lavie
Madame D'Astier
J
John Mahoney
Leo Solomon
T
Taylor Nichols
Stu
J
John Mahon
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
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See all →Desire of the Powerful Man
Tagline
Why can't the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Urgent Rewrite for the State of the Union
A.J.
Better call the printer, Lewis.
Lewis Rothschild
I know, we gotta rewrite the State of the Union.
A.J.
Every word, kid. It's a whole new ballgame. You have exactly 35 minutes.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
