Tanner '88 (Criterion) (1988)

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category: movies > dvds

director: Robert Altman

studio: Criterion Collection

year: 1988

format: 1:33:1

number of discs: 2

movie length: 353 minutes

region: 1

cast: Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed, Cynthia Nixon, Kevin J. O’Connor, Daniel Jenkins, Jim Fyfe, Matt Malloy, Ilana Levine, Richard Cox, Veronica Cartwright, Sandra Bowie, Wendy Crewson, E.G. Marshall, Frank Barhydt

tags: Tanner '88 Criterion

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In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics, in which actors Michael Murphy (as contender Jack Tanner) and Cynthia Nixon (as his daughter) rub elbows on the campaign trail with real-life political players Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Bob Dole, Ralph Nader, Kitty Dukakis, and Gloria Steinem, among many others. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the complete eleven-episode television series—more relevant today than ever.