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AroView: Director Oliver Stone examines the leadership of former U.S. President George W. Bush in this wayward, if strangely compelling account of the Texan’s contentious White House tenure.
Centred on Dubbya’s Iraq war controversy with flashbacks to his college years, early political foray and unlikely Presidential bid, Stone jumbles conventional biopic tropes and familiar recent history, drawn in his usual heavy-handed style. Josh Brolin’s measured performance as the oft-ridiculed Bush lends much-needed seriousness to a film that, elsewhere, includes caricatures of Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell.
Cast
Josh Brolin (George W. Bush) , Elizabeth Banks (Laura Bush) , Ellen Burstyn (Barbara Bush) , James Cromwell (George H.W. Bush) , Richard Dreyfuss (Dick Cheney)
Director
Languages
English, Spanish
Closed Captions [CC]
English
Country
USA
Studio
Lionsgate
