[C19fan]

A movie that is 20 years too late.

[Shadow44]

I forgot about Gary Hart, but I was a little kid when he ran for president.

[Yaelle]

Oh wow, a movie about a candidate having an affair? Sex with a woman, not his wife? And they expect us to BUY that wild plot??

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Ah yes. Back from a time when every single Dem was desperately trying to be the “new John Kennedy” — in every single way.

[Yaelle]

Here is Hart’s old campaign ad.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/hart-ad/n9614

[Liz]

The infamous pic on the Monkey Business---doing his JFK imitation.

[Islander7]

My favorite headline from that era was: Rice Causes Hart Troubles

[Sans-Culotte]

I get the impression from this review that the gist of the movie is that Hart really was “the next Kennedy” if only he had not been so “unfairly” scrutinized. How is this a theatrical release? It sounds like it should have been a made for HBO movie.

[Dr. Sivana]

Hart keeps saying (and Reitman agrees) that his personal life is nobody’s business but, sorry, that isn’t the way it works.

Of course, he undermined that position when he dared the reporters to follow him and put a tail on him.

[Ted Grant]

I saw the trailer and they left out an important part of Hart’s story: I recall there was a point early in the process where he dared the journalists to look into him closely because, of course, he’s clean as a whistle with nothing to hide.

Hubris, I’d like to introduce you to my friend Nemesis.

[Stevenc131]

He was a very smart guy, ran McGovern’s campaign up through the primaries. He hired young guys like pollster Pat Cadell who was just out of college. During the primaries McGovern was loved by the educated liberals and also by blue collar workers, great job by Hart in keeping McGovern as a maverick outsider.

After the Dem convention, the political hacks took over and McGovern tanked. He wouldn’t have won anyway but he just looked like another babbling liberal pol in the last few months. Hunter Thompson, who admired McGovern at the start, would later comment that when the bell rang, McGovern was just another Democrat (versus the straight talking outsider that Hart had managed).

[Buckeye McFrog]

an hour-and-53-minute lesson in how not to make a movie.

The makers of Showgirls earned several Doctorates on that.

[chrisinoc]

Two of the sisters from Last Man Standing are in the movie, Kaitlyn Dever (Eve) and Molly Ephraim (Mandy). But I still won’t see the movie.

[Cincinnatus]

Knock knock
Who’s there?
Sneaker.
Sneaker who?
Sneaker out the back door, Gary, the press is at the front.

[SamAdams76]

I was just posting about Gary Hart on a different thread.

I remember the 1988 campaign well (Hart dropped out in May of 1987). I had just gotten married and we were staying at the Sheraton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. We were watching Gary Hart on TV answering questions and my wife beckoned me to the window and right below us and across the street was Gary Hart - answering questions! We had no idea he was right across the street from us. It was one of those surreal experiences.

It was a different time.