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Tanner '88 [TV Series]

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Tanner '88 [TV Series]
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2hrs 0min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1988
Director:
Robert Altman
Starring:
Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed, Cynthia Nixon  ...more
Synopsis: Written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman, this is an amusingly vicious squint at the American electoral process. Michael Murphy plays Jack Tanner, Democratic Presidential nominee. Also featured are Cynthia Nixon as Jack's teenage daughter Alex, and Pamela Reed as campaign manager T. J. Cavanaugh. Despite the mocking nature of the material, the "cinema verite" style and inclusion of real-life political figures (Bruce Babbitt, Kitty Dukakis) in cameos led some impressionable viewers to ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings, AMG Review
One of director Robert Altman's more audacious experiments was this mini-series, originally produced for cable television, in which Altman, Doonesbury scribe Garry Trudeau, and actor Michael Murphy devised fictional presidential candidate Jack Tanner, a vague, stoic, all-American Democrat with his sights set on the White House. Beyond merely improvising the character, however, Altman and Murphy trotted ... Full Review
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Michael Murphy
Jack Tanner
Pamela Reed
T.J. Cavanaugh
Cynthia Nixon
Alex Tanner
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