Many have noted parallels between this film and the recent Presidential election, but it cannot be said that this film in any way predicted Donald Trump. Redford's character, a lawyer and activist, is a viable candidate in spite of his inexperience. Had he been a childish businessman with no public service at all on his record, one with an aversion to the truth and little if any substantive knowledge of policy, this film would have been laughed off movie screens all across the country. How things have changed in the last 40 years.
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