Un presidente degli Stati Uniti vedovo in corsa per la rielezione e una lobbista ambientale si innamorano. È tutto legittimo, ma la politica è percezione e le scintille volano comunque.Un presidente degli Stati Uniti vedovo in corsa per la rielezione e una lobbista ambientale si innamorano. È tutto legittimo, ma la politica è percezione e le scintille volano comunque.Un presidente degli Stati Uniti vedovo in corsa per la rielezione e una lobbista ambientale si innamorano. È tutto legittimo, ma la politica è percezione e le scintille volano comunque.
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- QuizBefore the movie started shooting, Michael J. Fox was still keeping his Parkinson's disease a secret. He felt he would lose the role if Rob Reiner found out. During a basic and routine fitness screening, Fox was terrified that clinicians would detect the periodic shaking in his left hand and eventually connect it to Parkinson's. Fortunately for Fox, he took his medication in time to quell the shaking and the test amounted to nothing more than checking heart rate and blood pressure.
- BlooperAfter the President's big speech at the end of the movie, staff members are walking quickly back to re-write the State of the Union address. After Leon says "Well, you don't see that every day," Louis says "Yeah - he's got the members of the press corps asking each other how to spell 'erudite.'" Although the president never uses the word 'erudite' in his speech, erudite is an apt description of his demeanor during the speech. This was a reference to his demeanor, not a reference to something he said.
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A. J. MacInerney: [in the Oval Office] The President doesn't answer to you, Lewis!
Lewis Rothschild: Oh, yes he does, A.J. I'm a citizen, this is my President. And in this country it is not only permissible to question our leaders, it's our responsibility!
- Versioni alternativeCompany logos change between versions. For example, on the laserdisc, the movie starts with a 20-second silent Columbia logo (before the Castle Rock logo), and the end credits crawl includes (after the title of the movie has gone onscreen) a line-art logo "Released by Columbia Pictures/A Sony Pictures Entertainment company" that crawls up and stops, over the end of the music. On the international prints, the 1990-1997 Universal logo was played and it was also silent. The 1999 WB DVD skips the opening logo, starting with the Castle Rock logo instead, and where the Columbia logo at the end should appear as the music ends, a still clouds-and-shield WB logo appears instead (Distributed by WB/A Warner Communications Company). The Columbia versions are probably truer to the original theatrical release. See also The Shawshank Redemption.
- Colonne sonoreBrandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050, 1st Movement: Allegro
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Clearly, this film helped influence the creation of 'The West Wing' TV Series four years later, even using the same Oval Office set shown in this film. The sets and atmosphere are presented in immaculate detail, and authentic looking, surpassing anything ever portrayed in film other than the Whitehouse itself. I've been in the real Whitehouse, including the Oval Office, and have also sat at the faux Resolute desk on the set of West Wing (same desk used in this film). There was a tremendous investment made to recreate the real thing in this film, and Reiner pulled it off perfectly.
In Sorkin's screenplays, self-confidence, keen intellect, superior communication ability, and one's ethics-compass are at the core of the protagonist's persona.
Michael Douglas portrays Democratic President Andrew Shepherd with the same believability and deft touch as he did playing Gordon Gecko in Wall Street.
Annette Benning is the ideal girlfriend of the widowed Shepherd, and engages the audience (and Douglas) in one of her most charming performances.
A first-class supporting actor ensemble are up to the task of portraying Sorkin's crack White House staff, adding immensely to making this film a feel-good romance that is believable and fun.
The plot doesn't delve deeply into the emotions or feelings of Shepard nor Benning's lobbyist charecter Sydney Ellen Wade, but highlights the witty repertoire one would expect from a US President and Capitol Hill lobbyist. The deft skill and movie-star quality each actor has developed in their respective acting careers are showcased with Sorkin's writing in telling this Whitehouse Cinderella story.
If the film went deep into emotions, it would have just gotten in the way of a story of a widowed relatively young President falling in love at first sight with Sydney, and the fun of seeing her being thrust into the White House staff and press fish bowl.
There is a definite Frank Capra influence to the film.
It all works better than it might seem on paper, and we get to enjoy another Rob Reiner classic: A director whose movie-making style and subject-matter is as diverse as anyone in the business.
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- Mi querido presidente
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Lake Tahoe, California, Stati Uniti(Snow at Camp David)
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- Budget
- 62.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 60.079.496 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 10.014.558 USD
- 19 nov 1995
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 107.879.496 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 54 minuti
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- 2.39 : 1