The Contender (2000)
Rating: 6.7/10
Duration: 126 min
Director(s): Rod Lurie,
Description:
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.
Cast
- Jeff Bridges as President Jackson Evans
- Christian Slater as Reginald Webster
- Saul Rubinek as Jerry Tolliver
- Joan Allen as Laine Hanson
- Sam Elliott as Kermit Newman
- Gary Oldman as Shelly Runyon
- William Petersen as Jack Hathaway
- Philip Baker Hall as Oscar Billings
- Robin Thomas as William Hanson
- Kathryn Morris as Paige Willomina
- Mike Binder as Lewis Hollis
- Kristen Shaw as Fiona Hathaway
- Douglas Urbanski as Makerowitz
- Noah Fryrear as Timmy
- Angelica Page as Dierdra