

Power
DirectorSidney Lumet
“More seductive than sex… More addictive than any drug… More precious than gold. And one man can get it for you. For a price.”
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
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Cast

Richard Gere
Pete St. John

Denzel Washington
Arnold Billings

Gene Hackman
Wilfred Buckley

Julie Christie
Ellen Freeman

Kate Capshaw
Sydney Betterman

E.G. Marshall
Senator Sam Hastings

J.T. Walsh
Jerome Cade

Beatrice Straight
Claire Hastings

Fritz Weaver
Wallace Furman

E. Katherine Kerr
Irene Furman

Michael Learned
Gov. Andrea Stannard
Omar Torres
Roberto Cepeda
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