Running Mates
Brief Synopsis
The Democratic National Convention has begun and Michigan Governor James Reynolds Pryce is assured of his party's nomination. He is enjoying
Cast & Crew
Ron Lagomarsino
Tom Selleck
Laura Linney
Nancy Travis
Teri Hatcher
Bob Gunton
Film Details
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Synopsis
Governor James Reynolds Pryce, a popular Democratic presidential nominee, encounters numerous personal and political challenges in choosing his running mate.
The Democratic National Convention has begun and Michigan Governor James Reynolds Pryce is assured of his party's nomination. He is enjoying enormous popularity, while at the same time feeling tremendous pressure from his party's power elite. The message from the money men is clear: Support their agendas and back off the issue of campaign finance reform -- or lose their financial support in the general election.
While waiting out the days leading up to the nomination vote -- and his all-important acceptance speech -- Pryce wrestles with the decision of who will be his running mate. It has come down to two finalists: Mitchell Morris, the Texas senator who is one of Washington's leading insiders and friend to any special interest group that comes knocking with money in hand -- or Terrence Randall, the junior senator from Colorado who is a leading advocate of campaign finance reform and shares many of Pryce's own idealistic dreams about how America should be run. Can Pryce win without Morris' money? Can he live with himself if he takes it?
Pryce's campaign is bolstered by the powerful women in his life: Lauren Hartman, his brilliant and principled campaign manager and a fierce supporter of his idealistic platform; Pryce's wife, Jenny, who, through political savvy, is at odds with her husband over their family's privacy; Shawna Morgan, a glamorous Hollywood fundraiser who is Pryce's Hollywood connection and future White House social secretary -- if she has her way; and Meg Gable, the wife of William Parker Gable, Pryce's mentor and entree into Washington society when he first began his political career. Meg wants her husband to be on the Pryce ticket more than she wants anything else, and she's not giving up without a fight.
Director
Ron Lagomarsino
Cast
Tom Selleck
Laura Linney
Nancy Travis
Teri Hatcher
Bob Gunton
Robert Culp
Faye Dunaway
J August Richards
Albert S. Ruddy
Arianna Huffington
Andy Berman
Vanita Harbour
Colin Patrick Lynch
Anne Gee Byrd
Art Frankel
Robert Novak
Juan Carlos Cantu
Diana Morgan
Katelin Petersen
Kevin Loomis
Jack Shearer
Maccie Bairo
Phil Brock
Al Hunt
Patricia Wilson
Phil Proctor
Margaret Carlson
Barbara Roberts
Mark Shields
Andrew Mark Berman
Susan Estrich
Arianna Huffington
Irene Roseen
J.p. Manoux
Vern Urich
Steven Leavitt
Samantha Lloyd
Takayo Fischer
Ben Messmer
Janelle Paradee
Wesley Harris
Caroline Aaron
Robert Clendenin
Adria Dawn
Stephanie Geyer
Ryan Cutrona
Bruce Bohne
Jack Betts
Mark Shields
Luis Cortes
Kate O'beirne
Michael Kinsley
Richard Callahan
Jesica Drake
Alberto Vazquez
Van Epperson
Margaret Carlson
Barbara Tyson
Kenny Moskow
Rebecca Klingler
Tommy Hicks
Bruce Mcgill
Wayne Péré
Michael P Casey
Al Hunt
Jody Wood
Taylor Nichols
Ellis E. Williams
Darrel Kunitomi
Steffani Brass
Rachel Wilson
Mark Valley
Michael Kinsley
Derek Storm
Haynes Brooke
Kevin Kelly
Linda Eder
Kate O'beirne
Bridget Mcmeel
Matt Malloy
Vitto Pitta
Robert Novak
Crew
Dennis Adams
Joey Altruda
Cindy Lee Arnold
Simon Austin
Willie Beck
Lon Bentley
Susan Black
Leroy Bonner
Kevin Bowe
Andy Brokmeyer
Darlene Brumfield
Pat Caddell
Margaret Carlson
Cristen Carr Strubbe
Alan Caso
Alan Caso
Alan Caso
Pietro S Cecchini
Joe P Clarke
Brett Cody
Kevin M Conlin
Joe Cosentino
Joe Couch
Sean Crowell
Shannon Curtman
Shannon Curtman
Mike David
Deborah Myles Davis
John Debney
Larry Detwiler
Don Dilego
Tim Donahue
Andrea Dopaso
Caryn Drake
Dawn Dreiling
Gregg Edler
Leonard Engelman
Audra Esposito
Mali Finn
Marcy Froehlich
Andrew Gottlieb
Lesley Greene
Eric Grenaudier
Stephen Grubbs
Kenya Hadley
Stuart Hagen
Geoffrey Haley
Bob Hall
Hope Hanafin
Geno Hart
Chuck Herrmna
Arianna Huffington
Al Hunt
Frederick Iannone
Tim Imre
Nancy Jarzynko
Marshall Jones
Douglas S Kennedy
Tina Kerr
Robb Wilson King
Michael Kinsley
Doug Koztoski
Kris Kristofferson
Lindsey Hayes Kroeger
Allen Kupetsky
Dorothy Labostrie
Mike Leon
Little Richard
Little Richard
Michael Love
Joe Lubin
Doug Ludwig
Alicia Macarone
Michael Mason
Richard Maxey
Dennis Mayamoto
Daniel C. Mcfadden
Pua Mcginness
Jill Meyers
Ralph Middlebrooks
Kurt Moritz
David Muntz
Joe Murphy
Steve Nelson
Evan Nesbitt
Sam Nicholson
Robert Novak
Kate O'beirne
Terry O'bright
Glenn Osser
Nilo Otero
Marvin Pierce
Kevin Pike
Natali K. Pope
Gerald Rafshoon
Lionel Richie
Sid Robin
Keith Rogers
Tana Roller
Christina Rollo
Albert S. Ruddy
Claudia Salter
Roger Sassen
Clarence Satchell
Nina Saxon
Victor Scalise
Ben R Scott
Greg Scribner
Phil Shanahan
Bree Sharp
Bree Sharp
Rick Sharp
Charles Shavers
Mark Shields
Gregory Sill
Lucy Smegel
Jim Smith
Jaison Stritch
Jimmy Suissa
Mark Sweet
Dan Taylor
Michele Tedlis
Sharon L Vise
Karen Mayeda Vranek
Peter Ware
Tim Werle
James Williams
Marlene Williams
Lisa Wong
Jim Zemansky
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States August 13, 2000
Released in United States on Video November 7, 2000
Previous title: "Washington Slept Here."
Previously in development as a feature film at Touchstone Pictures.
Began shooting January 2000.