Tanner '88

Starring: Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed, Daniel Jenkins, Cynthia Nixon, Kevin J. O'Connor

Directed by: Robert Altman

RS: 4of 4 Stars

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Made for TV back in the days of the Bush-Dukakis race, this canny mockumentary from Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau is in some ways prescient -- with its comic vision of an obsessively spin-doctored presidential candidate -- and in other ways sweetly dated: Unlike the current high-stakes version, this campaign is more like a lark.