Release Date: Sep 28, 2003 Wide
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British director Stephen Frears' political docudrama The Deal was originally broadcast on Channel 4. The film is based on the real-life events that elevated Tony Blair to the seat of Prime Minister. The film shows how the hard-working, but not head-turning, Gordon Brown (David Morrissey) and the flashy Blair (Michael Sheen), two very opposite personalities, forged a working relationship while opposing Margaret Thatcher's government. When the Labor leader, John Smith, dies of a heart attack, on
Sep 28, 2003 Wide
Jul 29, 2008
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just a couple of guys conniving their way to the top but mostly appearing to do so via telephone
A straight-up insider-politics study of ambition on a national scale.
... the story is ultimately about friendship, ambition and betrayal in the compromising business of politics.
[A]bsolutely worth a look for American fans of British drama even if much of the political stuff will go over our heads, because of the intense performances by Sheen and... Morrissey...
(T)hanks to the performances of actors Michael Sheen and David Morrissey, we gain the kind of insights we couldn't glean from a newspaper or a Parliamentary transcript.
A bold and credible effort to dramatize contemporary political history. [DVD]
Directed by Stephen Frears, "The Deal" is an illuminating and well-acted docudrama based on fact that questions the notion of the necessity of compromise in politics. The movie starts on a fateful day in 1994 as Gordon Brown(David Morrissey) is planning to meet future war criminal Tony Blair(Michael Sheen, who I have
May 8, 2009Super Reviewer
Half cooked political drama which totally fails both as a film and as a depiction of Labour's life under Tatcher. The character of Gordon Brown is not well built, the politicians seem only moved by boyhood ambitions and the camera work is as memorable as John Major's environmental policies...
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