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There can be no doubt that we live in one of the most tumultuous political climates of the nation's history, a climate where politicians can be toppled on a whim, election results
disputed in the country's highest courts, and governors unceremoniously recalled. It's
enough to leave even the most cynical voter asking, how did this happen?
Harry Thomason and Nickolas Perry's incendiary documentary, based on the best-selling
book by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason, offers a glimpse at the genesis of these partisan
vendettas and explores the myths and truths behind the nearly 10-year campaign to
systematically destroy the political legacy of the Clintons.
Using previously unreleased materials, interviews, and shocking revelations from both
sides of the beltway, this probing work focuses on the smear campaign against Clinton
from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas leading up to and including his impeachment
trial. Kenneth Starr fans, beware.
Less of an advocacy film and more of an alarming treatise on the political power of the
media and personal interests, The Hunting of the President offers us a gallery of defeated
politicians, disappointed office seekers, right-wing pamphleteers, wealthy eccentrics, zany
private detectives, religious fanatics, and die-hard segregationists, all chiming in discord
from the tops of their soapboxes.
Elizabeth Richardson and Joseph Beyer -- Sundance 2004 |
