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A: It may not be well enough expressed, but the fact that he's avoided politics up to now, and the fact that he's running a legal aid office, and his own attitude towards Lucas when Lucas first approaches him. A good part of the film is spent trying...
A: That would be great, but that's another film, that's Ted Kennedy. That's also McKay a little further along, or Marvin Lucas.
You say we're never sure why McKay goes along with it. You may be right about that, but we do try to hint at those reasons. If you just sit there, you'll see a human being who is struggling...he does not have as concrete an ideology as...
The acting is also topnotch. Robert Redford's McKay is a perfect seemingly sexless but actually hungry, American idealist; MeIvyn Douglas is fine as his corrupt father; Don Porter, veteran of fatherly roles in TV sitcoms, is well-cast as Crocker Jarmon--rhetorically smooth, with the sincerity of a born...
With Lucas oiling up the electoral machine, McKay takes his primary contest handily. In the election he gets so caught up in the fever of the campaign and the persuasiveness of Lucas' tutorials in Realpolitik that he begins gaining points on Jarmon by compromising his principles. At the outset...