![]() ![]() His girlfriend, Mary Matalin, appears several times - albeit doing her job as President Bush's campaign strategist.Ĭlinton, Bush, and Perot have peripheral roles in this film that concentrates its attention on the people behind the Democratic campaign strategies. While most of the movie focuses on Carville's professional activities as he heads the efforts to defuse the Gennifer Flowers situation, prepares a television commercial, and leads the attack on the Republicans, we are given a glimpse into his personal life. If I think of an old calendar, I think of George Bush." About Ross Perot's overblown and self-aggrandizing campaign: ".the biggest single act of masturbation in the history of the world." On election eve, even as a Clinton victory seems certain, Carville ad-libs a tongue-in-cheek concession speech that, while amusing, sounds exactly what the candidate might have said had Bush made a miraculous comeback. About George Bush: "He reeks of yesterday. Most of the highlights of The War Room are quips and one-liners from Carville. ![]() Carville, on the other hand, is magnetic, not only because of his keen intellect, but because everything he does is suffused with a sense of sincerity. ![]() Stephanopoulos is intelligent, but he's not particularly interesting. Without Carville, this could have been yet another dry documentary on the behind-the-scenes political process. Rather, The War Room is an examination of two of the men instrumental in the victory: James Carville, the "Ragin' Cajun", and, to a lesser extent, the yuppiesque George Stephanopoulos.Ĭarville, with his buoyant personality and glib one-liners, naturally steals every scene from the soft-spoken Stephanopoulos. This is not Bill Clinton's story, nor is it an account of how he beat the odds to become the first Democratic President in 12 years. From the New Hampshire primary to election night, The War Room depicts Carville and Stephanopoulos' backroom strategy sessions and public moves as they catapulted their man from a virtual unknown to President Elect. The War Room is the story of James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, and their efforts on behalf of Bill Clinton throughout the 1992 Presidential campaign. ![]()
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