A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
Acting
Stan and Strong are terrifyingly symbiotic.
Direction
Abbasi makes degradation feel seductively inevitable.
Writing
Dialogue that coils like a threat.
Director
Ali Abbasi
Sebastian Stan
Donald Trump
Jeremy Strong
Roy Cohn
Martin Donovan
Fred Trump
Maria Bakalova
Ivana Trump
Catherine McNally
Mary Anne Trump
Charlie Carrick
Freddy Trump
Ben Sullivan
Russell Eldridge
Mark Rendall
Roger Stone
Joe Pingue
Tony Salerno
Ron Lea
Victor Palmieri
Edie Inksetter
Barbara Katz
Matt Baram
Dr. Steven Hoefflin
Moni Ogunsuyi
Sandra
Brad Austin
Dick Morgan
Stuart Hughes
Mike Wallace
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jeremy Strong spent months studying Cohn's actual voice recordings, adopting his machine-gun speech pattern and zero-blink stare.
The film was effectively buried in the U.S. after Trump legal threats — it grossed under $4M despite Strong's Cannes Best Actor win.
US
