The American President
The West Wing Weekly
Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's the first installment of the Political Film Fest, and we've got: Martin Sheen in the oval office! "What is the virtue of a proportional response?" The GDC! There are so many familiar elements in The American President, and yet, the film feels dramatically different from The West Wing (and at times, comedically different). It's our first episode, and we're going to talk about what we loved, what we didn't, and everything in between. Let's dive in! We’ve gotta start early because we're having lunch at the Kremlin.
Some goodies:
- Here's the trailer for the film.
- Check out this great poster from Italy for Il Presidente.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the very first installment of the West Wing Weekly Political Film Fest. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Rishike Sheerway. And I'm Joshua Molina. We're back. |
| 0:15.0 | Every week we're going to watch a different movie and we're going to talk about it. |
| 0:18.7 | One of us will nominate a candidate to be watched and then we'll switch but this first week we felt like it |
| 0:26.2 | had to be it had to be the American president it could only be we felt like there was |
| 0:31.1 | no choice but to talk about kind of the prequel to the West Wing. |
| 0:35.6 | People have been asking about this, asking you for this for a long time. |
| 0:39.5 | And this is one of those movies that every Wing Nut has seen. |
| 0:42.4 | I think so. I hadn't seen it in a while. |
| 0:44.7 | When was the last time you watched it? I think it's been decades. There was a time where it was on |
| 0:49.2 | TNT channel 17 times a day and I would occasionally catch a snippet of it but in terms of |
| 0:54.5 | sitting down and watching it entirely through my guess is it's been since the |
| 1:00.0 | 1990s. All right well before we get into our on it, do you want to give us some stats? |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, the film is The American President, the screenplay is by Our Man, Aaron Sorkin. |
| 1:09.3 | It was directed by Rob Reiner. |
| 1:11.4 | It premiered on November 17th, 1995. And this is the second time the two of them have worked together the first time was a few good man. |
| 1:20.7 | You mean the three of us? My mistake. |
| 1:23.0 | Please. |
| 1:24.0 | This is a Aaron Sorck and Rob Riner Josh Molina joint. |
| 1:27.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:28.0 | And I was trying to remember and then I did remember I didn't have to audition, which was nice. |
| 1:32.0 | Here's the synopsis according to the back of the DVD. |
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