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The story is about a man named Gary Hart, the Colorado senator who was widely favored in the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He may have been the man who made a big fuss during the presidential election as Hart was defying the press and the public. But one day, when Hart published in 1987, his photographs were a major scandal where he was trying to reform his reputation but to no avail.
There's an argument in the film about what is interesting and what is important, and how the two should be weighed. In that spirit, "The Front Runner" is interesting, but it's not weighty or assured enough to be important.
In a similar vein to Steven Spielberg's The Post, The Front Runner delves into the important role of journalism in a world filled with corruption and "fake news".
Reitman is good at posing questions for which he doesn't have answers and, although that makes for compelling drama, the results feel incomplete and frustrating.
Forcefully directed by Jason Reitman (Up In The Air), the film is essentially an origin story accounting for the venality of today's rabid media culture, covering hot-button topics such as invasion of privacy, newsroom bias and double-standards.