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Why have there been no great films about George Washington? And why are there so many films featuring Abraham Lincoln? From the John Ford classic Young Mr. Lincoln
Five great movies for President’s Day:
1. Young Mr. Lincoln
2. Independence Day
3. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4. “Kisses for My President” Not available on DVD or video, this all-but forgotten 1964 film features Polly Bergan as the nation’s first female President, but in this pre-feminist era its focus is on the problems faced by her husband, played by Fred McMurray. It is every bit as silly as its title suggests and you will never believe how it all gets resolved. (Guesses welcome)
5. Air Force One
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posted February 22, 2008 at 12:29 pm
How about The American President, with Michael Douglas as a widowed President with a tween-aged daughter (and card carrying member of the ACLU) and Annette Benning playing the lobbyist for an environmental group whom he choses to date?
posted February 22, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I am such a huge Aaron Sorkin fan! And I love both of their performances, and the wonderful dance they do to “I Have Dreams,” from “The King and I.”
posted March 7, 2008 at 10:38 am
You haven’t even touched the surface – and with action pictures “Independence Day” and “Air Force One”, you bounced right off it.
Two alternate suggestions:
“Thirteen Days” – President Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
“Gabriel Over the White House” (1933), with Walter Huston – (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0024044/). A “party man” is elected president in the midst of the depression, but changes after a near-death experience. He demands and gets dictatorial powers from Congress, goes to war with gangsters (calling in tanks at one point), and threatens war on Europe unless they agree to mutual disarmament. Neat piece to remind people how attractive Fascism can be.