Ides of March, The

Blackmail and dirty politics run rampant in this engaging, realistic, star-dotted (Jeffrey Wright, Max Minghella, and Jennifer Ehle) political thriller, which is based on Beau Willimon's play, about a dedicated, ambitious, idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who gets caught up in a power play between two hardnosed, veteran campaign managers (Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti), is hounded by a New York Times journalist (Marisa Tomei) looking for a juicy story, and is seduced by a comely intern (Evan Rachel Wood) while on the presidential campaign trail working for a popular governor (George Clooney).
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