The real question that this film asks is: where does Rob Lowe really belong? On the big screen or the little screen?
Knife Fight (2013) | USA, 100 minutes, Rated 14A (ON) NR (QC) | Reviewed 03/13, © Stephen BourneRob Lowe returns to the big screen as San Francisco-based veteran political spin doctor Paul Turner in this unabashedly wry yet plodding mild satire from director Bill Guttentag. In Knife Fight, Turner callously juggles damage control duties handling the separate scandalous affairs of incumbents California senator Stephen Green (played by David Harbour) and Kentucky Governor Larry Becker (Eric McCormick), until an unforeseen consequence of Turner's Machiavellian scheming and media manipulation results in pangs of unsettling conscience.
It was an interesting film. It is really scary that it really happens.
There have been recent political campaign movies such as The Ides of March which had a more heavyweight cast. There are classics such as Robert Redford in The Candidate.
Some years ago I had a ood Assemblymember representing me in Albany. At least he epresented my point of view aboit 95% of the time.
Brilliant! An awesome political movie; if you didn't like Rob Lowe before this, you will!
As a big fan of West Wing (in spite of its heavy doses of Democratic propaganda), I recognized very soon where we were in this movie, and was happy to see West Wing alums Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff together. I thought a couple other faces might have been familiar from there, too, but nothing happened to make me care enough to go check.
"Knife Fight" is a brilliant film from 2012. And it is currently available on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming.
I dunno if it's an old saying I heard in politics someplace -or- the movie "The Untouchables"-?? LOL -something about being sure to bring a gun to a knife fight- something like that-??
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