Car crashes and creepy campaign contributions make strange bedfellows in this clunky thriller.
Maverick adman-turned-populist Aidan Carvell (William Shatner) looks like the next senator from California thanks to his patriotic stump speeches and bestselling manifesto Land of the Free. During one appearance an assassin tries to shoot Carvell but is taken out by his campaign manager Frank
Jennings (Jeff Speakman), an upright ex-Navy man. However, FBI agents pull Jennings aside and inform him that the attempted murder might have been staged, and that Carvell's campaign funds have come from homegrown anti-government "militia" terrorists. Reluctantly, Jennings ...
Released:
1998
Rated:
R
Length:
96 mins