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The Big Brass Ring is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Hickenlooper released in USA on 20 april 1999 with William Hurt

The Big Brass Ring (1999)

The Big Brass Ring
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Released in USA 20 april 1999
Length 1h44
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller
Rating53% 2.6534252.6534252.6534252.6534252.653425

The Big Brass Ring is a 1999 drama film, starring William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob, Jefferson Mays, and Miranda Richardson (who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance). The film's script was heavily rewritten by George Hickenlooper and F. X. Feeney from a previous screenplay written by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar in the early 1980s; Hickenlooper also directed the film.

Synopsis

The story concerns the darker side of a political campaign trail in Missouri. A gubernatorial candidate, Blake Pellarin, is making a campaign stop in St. Louis when his old mentor, Kim Minnaker, resurfaces. Minnaker left the country after a scandal, but now is working on a memoir and evidently possesses compromising photos of Pellarin that could end his hopes of becoming governor and, beyond that, President of the United States.

Actors

William Hurt

(William Blake Pellarin)Nigel Hawthorne

(Kim Mennaker)Irène Jacob

(Cela Brandini)Jefferson Mays

(Garne Strickland)Ewan Stewart

(Kinzel)
And :
Miranda Richardson
Gregg Henry
Ron Livingston
Jim Metzler
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