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The American President

Why can't the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?

1995★ 6.5 · 7891h 53mDramaRomance

Overview

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.

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Cast

Annette Bening
as Sydney Ellen Wade

Michael Douglas
as Andrew Shepherd

Michael J. Fox
as Lewis Rothschild

Martin Sheen
as A.J. MacInerney

Richard Dreyfuss
as Senator Rumson

Wendie Malick
as Susan Sloan

Samantha Mathis
as Janie Basdin

John Mahoney
as Leo Solomon

Joshua Malina
as David

David Paymer
as Leon Kodak

Anne Haney
as Mrs. Chapil

Taylor Nichols
as Stu

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Release date: 1995-11-17

Budget: $62,000,000

Revenue: $107,879,496

Runtime: 1h 53m

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DramaRomance

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