Category: Biography
All Genres: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release Year: 2010
Country: Canada
Runtime:
Rating: 8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: George Hickenlooper
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Taglines:
Writing by: Norman Snider – (written by)
Produced by: Dana Brunetti – executive producer
Rick Chad – executive producer
Patricia Eberle – executive producer
Oscar Generale – executive producer
Gary Howsam – producer
Bill Marks – producer
Warren Nimchuk – executive producer
Angelo Paletta – executive producer
Richard Rionda Del Castro – executive producer
Domenic Serafino – executive producer
Lewin Webb – executive producer
George Zakk – producer
Donald Zuckerman – executive producer
Cast: Kevin Spacey – Jack Abramoff
Ruth Marshall – Susan Schmidt
Graham Greene – Bernie Sprague
Hannah Endicott-Douglas – Sarah Abramoff
Barry Pepper – Michael Scanlon
John Robinson – Federal Agent Patterson
Jason Weinberg – Snake
Spencer Garrett – Tom DeLay
Yok Come Ho – Asian Factory Worker
Anna Hardwick – Lobbyist #2
John David Whalen – Kevin Ring
Music: Jonathan Goldsmith
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline:
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Plot: A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Movie Quotes:
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Errors in geography: The scene from the “Nationals'” bullpen where one of the Nats relief pitchers throws a note to a female fan in the stands was actually filmed in the visitors' bullpen at Nationals Park. The visitors' bullpen (in left-center field) is more open and sunny (scene was filed in the morning) while the real Nationals bullpen (in right field) is shaded by the stands above it.
Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- Nicole Kidman didn't see the the original Broadway play when it premiered in 2006, but she read a review and called up a producer from her production company, Blossom Films. The following night he saw the play and afterwards set up a meeting with David Lindsay-Abaire about the film. Kidman later read the script and saw an Australian production.
- John Cameron Mitchell was attracted by the script, and by the personal fact that at 14, he lost his 10-year-old brother to a heart problem; "It was a sudden, unexpected event. It defined a family forever and recovering from it was something we're still doing."
- According to a New York Times article from August 2009, director Sam Raimi was attached to the project as a director, but withdrew to do Untitled Spider-Man Reboot (2012).
