the american president
Watching The American President, I felt respect for the craft that went into it: the flawless re-creation of the physical world of the White House, the smart and accurate dialogue, the manipulation of the love story to tug our heartstrings. [1]
View company contact information for The American President on IMDbPro. [2]
Promotional movie poster for The American President. [3]
Within the pages of The American President: A Complete History–perhaps the most authoritative and readable single-volume reference work of its kind–historian Kathryn Moore presents a riveting narrative of each president’s personal and political experiences in and out of office, along with illuminating facts and statistics about each administration, fascinating timelines of national and world events, astonishing trivia, and much more besides. [4]
President Andrew Shepherd: I want to buy her some flowers. [5]
President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly liberal Democrat, is just gearing up for re-election when he meets an attractive and sharp environmental lobbyist named Sydney Wade (Annette Bening). [1]
President Andrew Shepherd: Yeah, well, that class wasn’t about what I thought it was about. [...] Sydney Ellen Wade: Well, I’m no expert but I think we did it pretty good this time. [5]
Sydney Ellen Wade: Bob Rumson’s gotta be drooling over this! [2]
Roosevelt, who occupied the White House at a time of war, nonetheless resolutely took up the gauntlet of protecting and improving the social and economic welfare of the American people. [4]
The American President is a 1995 romantic comedy film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin. [...] Composer Marc Shaiman was nominated for the Original Musical or Comedy Score Oscar for The American President. [3]
You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and character. [5]
In the film, President Andrew Shepherd (Douglas) is a widower who pursues a relationship with attractive lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Bening) ‘ who has just moved to Washington, D.C. ‘ while at the same time attempting to win passage of a crime control bill. [...] He makes a surprise appearance in the White House press room to rebut the Republican attacks on his values and character, and then sends the controversial environmental bill to Congress while withdrawing his support for the moderate crime bill, promising that he will write a stronger crime bill in due time, and fight for that as well. [3]
Sources:
[1] The American President (1995) on MSN Movies
[2] The American President (1995)
[3] The American President - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] The American President by Kathryn Moore
[5] The American President (1995) - Memorable quotes