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The Walker
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy urbane conspiracy dramas driven by social observation, coded relationships, and morally ambiguous investigation.
- Tone
- cerebral, tense, darkly comic
- Payoff
- revelation, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- secrecy, political power, loyalty, identity, corruption
- Setting
- contemporary, elite political social circles and urban nightlife