Director Robert Altman and cartoonist Garry B. Trudeau combined forces for this ground breaking satire following the campaign of fictional democratic presidential candidate Jack Tanner, mixing real life politicians and celebrities with the fictional characters.
Tanner, basically a nice guy who doesn't have the killer instinct of his competitors, nevertheless forges ahead with the help of his campaign manager T.J. Cavanaugh (Pamela Reed), youthful aide Stringer Kincaid (Daniel Jenkins), and teenage daughter Alex (Cynthia Nixon), as well as a brief appearance by E.G. Marshall as Tanner's father. Other regulars include kindhearted newspaper columnist Taggerty Hayes (Kevin J. O'Connor), ditzy assistant Andrea Spinelli (Ilana Levine), and Dukakis campaign head Joanna Buckley (Wendy Crewson), Tanner's secret love interest.

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