The American President

The American President is a 1995 American romantic comedydrama film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film stars Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox and Richard Dreyfuss. In the film, President Andrew Shepherd Douglas is a widower who pursues a relationship with environmental lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade Bening who has just moved to Washington, D.C. while at the same time attempting to win the passage of a crime control bill.

Popular Democratic President Andrew Shepherd Michael Douglas is preparing to run for reelection. The President and his staff, led by Chief of Staff and best friend A.J. MacInerney Martin Sheen, attempt to consolidate the administrations 63 approval rating by passing a moderate crime control bill. However, support for the bill in both parties is tepid conservatives do not want it, and liberals think it is too weak. If it passes, however, Shepherds reelection is presumed by his staff to be a shooin, and Shepherd resolves to announce the bill, and the Congressional support to pass it, by the State of the Union.With the President of France about to arrive in the United States to attend a state dinner in his honor, Shepherd widowed when his wife died of cancer three years earlier is placed in an awkward predicament when his cousin, with whom he had planned to attend the dinner, gets sick. ........

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