For ReaI.
ln 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert AItman and PuIitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him aIongside the other hopefuIs during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The resuIt was the groundbreaking Tanner '88, a piercing satire of media-age American poIitics, in which actors Michael Murphy and Cynthia Nixon rub elbows on the campaign traiI with real-life poIitical pIayers Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Bob DoIe, RaIph Nader, Kitty Dukakis, and Gloria Steinem, among many others. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the compIete eleven-episode television series - more reIevant today than ever. |