Ryan Gosling's a campaign worker, an aide to Philip Seymour Hoffman, who is campaign manager for George Clooney.
Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, and Marissa Tomei add to the stellar cast in this solid story about democratic Governer Clooney's bid for the party primaries: the infighting, corruption, the compromises, and other political shenanigans.
The film covers a few days, and many moves and counter-moves, in that campaign. It's not a thriller, but it is compelling, even riveting.
If I said it's a story about loyalty, and the loss of innocence, I'd sound too much like a professional critic. But that's what it's about, and hang the obscure, and - as far as this boy's grammar school education remembers it - irrelevant Shakespearian reference. The Ides of March? Pah!
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