The American President (1995)

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The president's got a girlfriend...We're back to help everybody get through this election day, I mean week, I mean month. Today we revisit Aaron Sorkin's The American President, the basis of what would become the West Wing and also a fantastic Rob Reiner film. Annette Bening plays Sydney Ellen Wade, who begins a romantic relationship with the president of the United States, Andrew Shepard, played by a Michael Douglas that is doing his best to keep his smarmy factor down to zero (which he totally does pull off somehow.