Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Robert Penn Warren.
Summary:
Willie Stark is an ordinary man, demanding that crooked politicians and shady businessmen in Louisiana be held accountable for the collapse of a poorly built school. Urged to run for Governor, Stark, finds his voice as a charismatic man of the people. He befriends a young idealistic journalist, Jack Burden, who eventually ends up working for him. Burden begins to question his own morality and Stark's transformation into an inflexible leader that will stop at nothing to remain in power.
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