Summary
Based on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Cast
Kevin Spacey
Jack Abramoff
Kelly Preston
Pam Abramoff
Hannah Endicott-Douglas
Sarah Abramoff
Rachelle Lefevre
Emily Miller
Barry Pepper
Michael Scanlon
Spencer Garrett
Tom DeLay
Jon Lovitz
Adam Kidan
Eric Schweig
Chief Poncho
Yannick Bisson
Oscar Carillo
Maury Chaykin
Big Tony
Daniel Kash
Kontantinos (Gus) Boulis
Anna Hardwick
Lobbyist #2
Ruth Marshall
Susan Schmidt
Paul Stephen
Reverend Mueller
Graham Abbey
Simon Bowler
Jeffrey R. Smith
Grover Norquist
Graham Greene
Bernie Sprague
Sima Fisher
Prostitute (uncredited)
John Hickenlooper
Senator Campbell
Crew
Director
George Hickenlooper
Writer
Norman Snider
Reviews
pmchanjr
July 29, 2013
10
"The great American past-time has never been baseball, it has always been making money." A true enough quote from the film, but the unanswered question remains: "Is fraud the 'dirty-little-secret-ingredient' necessary for capitalism to work?"
The most blatant fraud against justice is the "non-disclosure agreement" sold to criminals, by our justice system, to protect their trade-secrets. Jack Abramoff's story was an unheeded warning, quickly forgotten; it isn't fraud if it isn't noticed.
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