What ‘The Front Runner’ Says About Today’s Politics
“The Front Runner” is not going to tell you how to feel about politics. The new film, starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by him and Matt Bai and Jay Carson, tells the story of the short-lived 1988 presidential campaign of Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., who went from being the presumptive favorite to win the presidency to political oblivion within the span of a few days, felled by a scandal fueled by the senator’s extra-marital affair.
“You could see the seeds of politics we’re dealing with now,” says Carson, a former Capitol Hill staffer. The central tenet of the…
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