Tuesday, April 21, 2020
All the King's Men (2006)
Synopsis
In the 1950s, in Louisiana, the smart populist,
manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark (Sean Penn) is elected Governor
with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed
of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy (Jackie Earle Haley); the
journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden (Jude Law); the
lobbyist Tiny Duffy (James Gandolfini); and his mistress Sadie Burke
(Patricia Clarkson), to face the opposition of the upper classes. When
the influent Judge Irwin (Sir Anthony Hopkins) supports a group of
politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find
some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.
