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Power

Movie (1986)

"More seductive than sex... More addictive than any drug... More precious than gold. And one man can get it for you. For a price."

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...

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Released:	Jan 31st, 1986
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Richard Gere
plays Pete St. John

Julie Christie
plays Ellen Freeman

Gene Hackman
plays Wilfred Buckley

Kate Capshaw
plays Sydnet Betterman

Denzel Washington
plays Arnold Billing

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When this film premiered at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, reels 3 and 4 were sequentially reversed by Sundance staffer and IATSE projectionist David Nelson. Most critics and viewers said that they didn't notice the mistake in what they called an otherwise disappointing film. One of the film's makers demanded that the incomplete premiere be stopped and it wasn't rescheduled, the only such film in festival history to do so.
Burt Reynolds was the first choice for the lead. He was not able to perform in the movie because of injuries he suffered on the set of City Heat.
Writer David Himmelstein said that one day, he saw a row of television monitors playing political commercials for different candidates. He said the spots all looked the same to him, so he did research to find out why and what he discovered he put into the script.

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