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6.9/10 • 678

2024-10-092h 2m

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An American horror story.

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Directors
Ali Abbasi
Editors
Olivier Bugge Coutté

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  1. Sebastian Stan

    Sebastian Stan

    Donald Trump

  2. Jeremy Strong

    Jeremy Strong

    Roy Cohn

  3. Maria Bakalova

    Maria Bakalova

    Ivana Trump

  4. Martin Donovan

    Martin Donovan

    Fred Trump

  5. Catherine McNally

    Catherine McNally

    Mary Anne Trump

  6. Charlie Carrick

    Charlie Carrick

    Freddy Trump

  7. Patch Darragh

    Patch Darragh

    Daniel Sullivan

  8. Stuart Hughes

    Stuart Hughes

    Mike Wallace

  9. Eoin Duffy

    Eoin Duffy

    Tony Schwartz

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CinemaSerf

Oct 9, 2024

6/10

I was really quite disappointed with this. It focusses on the rise of Donald Trump, and in that role Sebastian Stan proves quite effective at mimicking some of the famous mannerisms of the man himself. The facial expressions and the habit of repeating himself to thrust home his point are well captured by this performance. The rest of it, though, came across as little better than crude, occasionally violent, speculation centred around his relationship with the celebrated, and much feared, attorney Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) whose thinly disguised homosexuality proves to be a more telling indictment of a New York that was beginning to come to terms with AIDS. Trump's rise from wealth to greater wealth and prosperity is skirted over too superficially with little meat put on the bones of his property acquisitions, developments and battles with an Ed Koch-led city hall, and it's all presented a bit too episodically weakly. Maria Bakalova acquits herself well enough as Ivana but as to the drama concerning the rest of his family, that's undercooked and I struggled to identify the accent(s) that seemed to be coming from his mother (Catherine McNally) as the importance of that torrid family unit struggles to impact on the story. For me, Strong steals his scenes and delivers well as the manipulative and scheming lawyer with few scruples, but the rest of this is all a bit of a soap that will probably polarise opinion as effectively as does Donald Trump himself.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$16,000,000.00
Revenue
$17,271,613.00
Keywords
new york cityrapecorruptionaidsfuneralpoliticsblackmail1970sbiographybased on true storyatlantic citylawyerdebtbriberymisogynydeath of brothercharacter studymarital rapewiretappingmentor protégé relationshipreal estatediscriminationdegenerate1980scloseted homosexualfather son relationshipbrother brother relationshipabsurdmalfeasance