任期半ばで死亡した副大統領の後任として、大統領から直々に使命を受けた女性上院議員。彼女はアメリカ初の女性副大統領として政界で不当な差別を受ける……。
製作費: $20,000,000 (30億円)
興行収入: $22,428,990 (34億円)
推定収支: $2,428,990 (4億円)
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監督: Rod Lurie
脚本: Rod Lurie
音楽: Larry Groupé
制作: Maurice Leblond / Willi Bär / ダグラス・アーバンスキー
撮影監督: Denis Maloney
制作会社: Cinerenta / Cinecontender Internationale / Battleplan Productions / SE8 Group / DreamWorks Pictures
Joan Allen is an American senator who is nominated to replace a recently deceased Vice-President by Jeff Bridges ("President Evans"). Once her confirmation hearing begins, she finds her rather interesting private life under the scrutiny of hostile committee chairman Gary Oldman who is determined to expose every aspect of her life - past and present - to the public. Oscar-nominated Allen is good as the feisty, intelligent, senator but the rest of this is all rather lacklustre and frequently overly contrived, with plenty of dramatic events designed to enhance the plot rather then create any sense of plausibility. Against the backdrop of the Clinton impeachment trial, the film had a certain resonance and it certainly does not show the constitutional processes, nor the male-dominated American establishment's approach to women, in a good light, but the older it gets, the less that causal impact it has and is now little better than a run-of-the-mill political drama that struggles to distinguish itself.
