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Primary Colors is a 1998 American comedy-drama movie directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Elaine May was based of the novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics about Bill Clinton 's first presidential campaign in 1992. [1] [2] [3] The movie starred John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman ...
Primary Colors is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Elaine May was adapted from the novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, a roman à clef about the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign, which was originally published anonymously, but in 1996 was revealed to have been written by journalist Joe Klein, who had been covering Clinton's campaign ...
Primary Colors. In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton (Adrian Lester) is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta). Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who ...
Because Primary Colors vacillates uncertainly between the three, it's not strong as any of them. There's also a question of whether Nichols and May have softened the book to avoid appearing too critical of the President. Is Primary Colors an attack, a retreat, or an apology? My biggest complaint about the film is the length.
Primary Colors. 70 Metascore. 1998. 2 hr 23 mins. Comedy. R. Watchlist. Biting political satire focuses on an idealistic campaign manager (Adrian Lester) who reluctantly teams up with a Democratic ...
Mar 20, 1998 · In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a respected civil rights pioneer, to become his deputy campaign manager. Stanton's smart wife Susan (Emma Thompson) always comes through with public support for her philandering husband.
The slower-moving "Primary Colors" has more serious ambitions to capture something important and disturbing about this era's political atmosphere. Sometimes it does. It says a lot about the movie atmosphere that ads for "Primary Colors" describe Nichols solely as "the director of 'The Birdcage."'
