I love this movie so much

Absolutely Fantastic

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A newly employed negotiator, working for the ecology party, is sent to transmit a powerful message to the president of the United States of America about a new law that they strongly support. Her unique character attracts the lonely president who enters an apparently easy election year and slowly, they develop an unexpected relationship. As one might guess, this relationship quickly reaches the press and is bound to affect the election polls. To make matters worse, his quiet approach regarding the upcoming elections leave his adversary a clear path to victory. He must take the correct decisions and manage his career and private life at the same time in order to keep his position and, of course, his new lover.From my point of view, this is one of those movies for which you fall at first sight. It has almost everything you could wish for, tons of laughter, drama and romance, all packed up in a good and very enjoyable plot. It also has a couple of great actors who help a lot in creating a lovely atmosphere. It's an excellent movie which I recommend to anybody!

The Democratic U.S. President, a handsome widower with a teenage daughter who is up for re-election, finds his poll numbers dropping after meeting and dating an attractive environmental lobbyist; the Republican candidate (a slimy worm) combats what is left of the president's reputation with mud-slinging (seems the president's new lady-friend was present at a rally some 17 years ago where an American flag was burned). Star-laden comedy juggles politics with romance and lightly comic asides, but why the president's approval rating keeps dropping never makes much sense (one woman worries about the poor First Daughter caught in the middle!). Aaron Sorkin's screenplay is pure fluff--even the dramatic points he hopes to make, such as a bungled metaphor about people following a mirage in the desert, are noodle-soft. In the leads, Michael Douglas and Annette Bening share a very nice chemistry, and they're surrounded by a wonderful assortment of acting talent, but the political arena director Rob Reiner gives us here simply isn't persuasive. **1/2 from ****

Andrew Shepherd (played by Michael Douglas) is the President of the United States, and a widower. He is popular and the next election is approaching - his re-election should be a given. Then he meets lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening) and the relationship blossoms. However, he may have to choose between her and the presidency...Good political comedy-drama. Maybe a tad too schmaltzy and trite, yet entertaining nonetheless. Rob Reiner directs Aaron Sorkin's script with his usual light, free-flowing, style. Solid performances from an all-star cast: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J Fox, Richard Dreyfus. Supporting cast includes David Paymer and Wendie Malick.

What makes any movie someone's favorite? That isn't easy to define, and if I listed all my "favorites" it would make many scratch their heads because they are so varied. But this is one of my wife's favorites so we watched it yet again on this cold, rainy winter night the day after new year 2016. On DVD at home.Michael Douglas, about 50, is President Andrew Shepherd, going into the final year of his first term. He had become a widower shortly before the last election and he occupies the White House with his young teen daughter. he has a high approval rating, somewhere around 63% and is planning on pushing two pieces of legislation, one for gun-control and the other to reduce CO2 emissions to help arrest global warming.As a side note, here it is over 20 years later in the real world and the President is actually fighting for those same two issues, still meeting resistance from the manufacturing lobby and the gun lobby. Things don't change, do they?Anyway Annette Bening, in her mid-30s, is attractive and competent lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade, working to help push through the environmental bill. When she first shows up at the White House for a meeting is thrown for a loop when the President, right after she is caught harshly criticizing him in the meeting, and he asks her to have lunch. Or something, Then she gets invited to be his date for a State Dinner honoring the French President.So the movie is about the President courting this smart and attractive lady while he and she work to get legislation passed. And at the same time dealing with insults and misinformation by Rumford, planning to run against the President.Martin Sheen has a good role as the Chief of Staff and Michael J. Fox, in his early 30s, as the speech writer. Good, fun movie. I like it also!