No. 14 (2019) The Front Runner. Feb 19th.

Film No 14 (2019) Feb. 19th.  9:15 AM  LUNA PALACE Leederville. 

"This campaign is about the future not rumours, not sleaze, and I care about the sanctity of this process, WHETHER YOU DO OR NOT". (Gary Hart addresses the press in the days immediately after the story broke of his alleged meetings with Donna Rice).

This insightful film throws light on why the U.S. media and public have gone so lightly on Clinton and Trump in terms of their moral codes of behaviour, with particular reference to their philandering as elected politicians. Gary Hart was the front runner as the Democratic candidate in the lead up to the 1988 election. Many believed he was the President in waiting, if not for an incident on a party boat off Miami, where he met Donna Rice and began an alleged affair. Hugh Jackman plays Hart as professionally as Hart himself carried out his duties as a budding, charismatic presidential candidate. The box office is treating Front Runner as old news which is a shame because this watershed moment in U.S. politics quite possibly saved Clinton's skin and certainly allowed Trump to literally prosper. The Front Runner is as thorough as it is enlightening and will have you shaking your head as to the triviality of his alleged, I repeat, alleged, behaviour in the light of events in U.S. political history post Gary Hart. 9GUMS.