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Josh Brolin delivers a dead-on, Oscar-caliber performance in Oliver Stone's controversial, uneven, unfocused, star-studded (Richard Dreyfuss, Thandie Newton, Stacy Keach, Scott Glenn, Toby Jones, Ioan Gruffud, Jeffrey Wright, Rob Corddry, Noah Wyle, Jesse Bradford, et al.) biographical political satire that chronicles the life and career of President George W. Bush from his hard-drinking, partying college days at Yale during the 1960s; his early job hopping, including working on an oilrig in Texas and at an investment firm on Wall Street; his struggle to gain the approval of his strict parents (James Cromwell and Ellen Burstyn) and his competition with his younger brother (Jason Ritter); his longtime marriage to his devoted wife (Elizabeth Banks); his successful campaign to be elected governor of Texas; and finally serving as the 43rd president of the U.S.
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