Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.
Acting
Harrelson's clipped gentility masks oceans of hurt.
Production
Bacall's mansion practically breathes decaying power.
Direction
Schrader's most overtly political film since 'American Gigolo'.
Director
Paul Schrader
Woody Harrelson
Carter Page III
Kristin Scott Thomas
Lynn Lockner
Lauren Bacall
Natalie Van Miter
Ned Beatty
Jack Delorean
Moritz Bleibtreu
Emek Yoglu
Lily Tomlin
Abigail Delorean
Willem Dafoe
Larry Lockner
Mary Beth Hurt
Chrissie Morgan
William Hope
Mungo Tenant
Steven Hartley
Geff Francis
Garrick Hagon
Patricia DiZebba
Michael J. Reynolds
Ethan Withal
Stewart Alexander
Edgar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schrader modeled Carter on real 'walkers' in 1950s Washington high society, gay men hired as platonic escorts for political wives.
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