Front Runner, The

Jason Reitman's fascinating, unevenly paced, factually based, star-studded (J. K. Simmons, Alfred Molina, Kevin Pollak, Ari Graynor, Kaitlyn Dever, Molly Ephraim, Bill Burr, Steve Zissis, Tommy Dewey, Toy Huss, and Spencer Garrett), 113-minute biographical film based on Matt Bai's 2014 novel All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid that follows the presidential campaign trail of charismatic, adulterous, Democratic Colorado Senator Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman), who is married to his devoted wife (Vera Farmiga), that implodes and goes off the rails in 1988 when journalists discover that he is having an affair with Donna Rice (Sara Paxton).
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