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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its polished campaign-world tension, strategic betrayals, and morally compromised idealists echo The Contender’s interest in power being exercised through image, leverage, and private pressure.
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Why this pick
A fierce, articulate political drama driven by a formidable woman facing institutional hostility; it shares The Contender’s relish for procedural brinkmanship and pointed confrontations.
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Why this pick
Like The Contender, it scrutinizes how a public figure’s private life is weaponized, using a brisk, newsroom-adjacent political thriller style rather than simple partisan certainty.
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Why this pick
For the more paranoid side of The Contender’s Washington atmosphere, this is a cool, unnerving conspiracy thriller about institutions that conceal power behind respectable appearances.
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Why this pick
A superb Senate-confirmation drama with procedural detail, political favors, and personal exposure at its center—the classic antecedent to The Contender’s nomination battle.
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01 / THE STORY
Second-term Democratic Party (United States) President of the United States Jackson Evans must select a new Vice President of the United States following the sudden death of his Vice President, Troy Ellard. The obvious choice seems to be Governor of Virginia Jack Hathaway, who is hailed as a hero after he recently dove into a lake in a failed attempt to save a drowning girl. The President instead decides that his "swan song" will be helping to break the glass ceiling by nominating Laine Hanson, a talented Democratic senator from Ohio. In accordance with the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, approval from both houses of United States Congress is required. Standing in her way is U.S. Republican Party Congressman Sheldon Runyon of Illinois, who believes she is unqualified for the position, and backs Hathaway for the nod. His investigation into her background turns up an incident where she was apparently photographed participating in a drunken orgy as part of a sorority initiation. He is joined in his opposition by Democratic Representative Reginald Webster.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Shelly Runyon
Kermit Newman
Jack Hathaway
Oscar Billings
Lewis Hollis
William Hanson
Paul Smith
Congressman Skakle
