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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Rod Lurie</title>
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		<title>THE CONTENDER &#8211; Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Oldman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar 2000]]></category>
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The Contender (2000) 
Direction and screenplay: Rod Lurie
Cast: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater, Sam Elliott, William L. Petersen, Saul Rubinek, Philip Baker Hall, Robin Thomas, Mike Binder, Mariel Hemingway, Kathryn Morris, Kristen Shaw
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THE POLITICIANS&#8217; HOUR
&#34;Principles only mean anything when we stick by them when they&#8217;re inconvenient,&#34; says Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) in Rod Lurie&#8217;s political thriller The Contender. She should know. In that film, the poor Democratic senator is grilled by a Republican inquisitor with a bad hairdo (a venom-spitting Gary Oldman) who wants to prevent at all costs her being confirmed as the next Vice President of the United States. Even if that means destroying Hanson&#8217;s political career by making public the senator&#8217;s alleged participation [...]]]></description>
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