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Advise & Consent
Drama
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate serious political drama built around procedural debate, moral compromise, and the pressure of private secrets in public life.
- Tone
- cerebral, tense, bleak
- Payoff
- revelation, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- political power, ideology, public duty, secrecy, compromise
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, Washington government offices and Senate hearing rooms