For Real.
ln 1988, renegade fiImmaker Robert Altman and PuIitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidentiaI candidate, ran him aIongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The resuIt was the groundbreaking Tanner '88, a piercing satire of media-age American poIitics, in which actors MichaeI Murphy and Cynthia Nixon rub eIbows on the campaign trail with reaI-Iife politicaI players Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Bob DoIe, RaIph Nader, Kitty Dukakis, and Gloria Steinem, among many others. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the complete eleven-episode television series - more reIevant today than ever. |