Jane Fonda and Alan Rickman as Nancy and Ronald Reagan in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Leslie Nielsen did not return from the dead to play the white-haired fellow behind them. And the movie is the above-speculated curiosity but it’s also more, as I discuss in my review of the picture for MSN Movies.
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Thanks for your honesty, Glen, it’s refreshing to hear a non-pandering intelligent review. Maybe I’ll see it, maybe I won’t – because of the content of it’s character, nothing more and nothing less.
Good call on that guy in the background. I hope that Lt. Drebbin protects Nancy Reagan as well as he protected the Queen at that Dodgers game.
Looks more like THE TOWERING INFERNO of presidential movies.
No review of “Kick-Ass 2”?