

The American President
DirectorRob Reiner
“Why can't the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?”
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
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Cast

Michael Douglas
Andrew Shepherd

Annette Bening
Sydney Ellen Wade

Martin Sheen
A.J. MacInerney

Michael J. Fox
Lewis Rothschild

Anna Deavere Smith
Robin McCall

Samantha Mathis
Janie Basdin

Shawna Waldron
Lucy Shepherd

David Paymer
Leon Kodak

Anne Haney
Mrs. Chapil

Richard Dreyfuss
Senator Rumson

Nina Siemaszko
Beth Wade

Wendie Malick
Susan Sloan
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