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George Gorton (Jeff Goldblum), Dick Dresner (Anthony LaPaglia) and Joe Shumate (Liev Schreiber) have just left the 1996 presidential campaign of Republican California Governor Pete Wilson. Idle and itchy, they get a call seeking help for a presidential candidate in even worse straits: Russian President Boris Yeltsin. A hero for leading his country out of communism in the early '90s, he is now, amid economic ruin and a war in Chechnya, the goat. Polls show him trailing not only his main opponent, communist Gennadi Zyuganov, but also Joseph Stalin, the long-dead Soviet dictator...
...Gorton, Dresner and Shumate jump at the offer--for the challenge, the glory and a fat pile of money--but there are catches. The thuggish Yeltsin cronies who hire them insist on total secrecy and keep them virtual prisoners in a hotel. They cannot meet the candidate, who is often ill, drunk or both. Most ominously, the aides press the consultants to let them know if Yeltsin has no chance, so they can "take steps"--which, we assume, will be more brutal than push polling...
JONATHAN F. DRESNER...
...JONATHAN DRESNER...
...rights is a matter of justice, a clear test of whether we will allow "distaste" to overwhelm "right" and "reasonable." I dread the implications of failure. JONATHAN F. DRESNER, GSAS April...