Overview
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
Cast
- Richard Gere as Pete St. John
- Denzel Washington as Arnold Billings
- Gene Hackman as Wilfred Buckley
- Julie Christie as Ellen Freeman
- Kate Capshaw as Sydney Betterman
- E.G. Marshall as Senator Sam Hastings
- J.T. Walsh as Jerome Cade
- Beatrice Straight as Claire Hastings
- Fritz Weaver as Wallace Furman
- E. Katherine Kerr as Irene Furman