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Harrison Ford plays a fighting president,
who strives to save hostages travelling on
the presidential aircraft, when communist
radicals hijack it, with his family on board.
Primary Colours (1998):
is enough fodder for the press and a rival
senator to attack his character and pull him
down.
Nixon (1995):
In Mike Nichols’s satire loosely based
on Bill Clinton’s campaign in 1992, John
Travolta played a philandering governor,
with a rampaging libido, who has to fight
a sex scandal if he has to be elected to the
White House. Emma Thompson played his
ambitious wife.
Thirteen Days (2000):
Anthony Hopkins played Richard Nixon
in Oliver Stone’s biopic—a no-holds barred
film about the politician who rode to the
top of the anti-war movement against
America’s involvement in Vietnam, and
then went out in a wave of shame following
the Watergate scandal.
Air Force One (1997):
Many actors have played John F. Kennedy,
but Bruce Greenwood played him in
emergency mode in Roger Donaldson’s film
about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, and
the imbroglio involving the Soviets, that
had long-lasting effects on the world.
W (2008):
Oliver Stone cast Josh Brolin as of George
In Wolfgang Petersen’s film, action hero W. Bush, a powerful yet unpopular
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