Boy meets girl – and the press tracks their every movie, rivals fire broadsides and a Presidency with a 63% popularity rating plunges to 41% in seven weeks. When you’re the President, everyone knows where you live.
Michael Douglas portrays the widower Chief Executive who falls for a lobbyist (Annette Bening), then freefalls in the polls in this winning romantic comedy directed by Rob Reiner. Bustling staff members (Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, David Paymer, Anna Deavere Smith), a sneering opponent (Richard Dreyfuss), state dinners, formal protocol, informal moments, global crises – all come into focus as Reiner and his stars explore the balance between private romance and public Presidency.