She survived war. Washington might actually kill her.
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Acting
Blair Brown commits harder than this script deserves.
Production
Peak 'made-for-TV' aesthetic: beige offices, big hair.
Director
Gwen Arner
Blair Brown
Gen. Katherine Taylor
John Getz
Paul Taylor
John Glover
Bradley Mackin
Jensen Daggett
Lucy Taylor
Robin Gammell
Pres. Stuart Hammel
James Handy
Sen. Carl Dempsey
Richard Herd
Rep. Harold Reynolds
Nicholas Pryor
Arch
Mitchell Ryan
John 'Blackjack' Wade
Fran Bennett
Jane
Tim Conlon
J.D.
Paul Gleason
Harley Graham
René Le Vant
Parker Curtis
Miguel Sandoval
Gen. Herrera
Donald Moffat
Walter Simms
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the 'Year of the Woman' (1992), when five women won Senate seats—this rode that wave straight to obscurity. Blair Brown had just finished multiple Emmy-nominated years on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd; this was her 'prestige' TV movie era.
Director Gwen Arner was a prolific TV director (Dynasty, Falcon Crest) and one of few women directing drama at the time—ironic given the film's themes of systemic exclusion.
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