The Contender

★6.7

Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot.

The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.

Rod Lurie

Director

Rod Lurie

Writers

James Spies,Rainer Bienger,Mary Jo Slater,...

Producers

$20,000,000

Budget

$22428990

Revenue

13-10-2000

Release Date

USGB

Country

6.7

Rating

243

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Age Rating

126 min

Runtime

Released

Status

English, German

Language

★ 6.7

$20,000,000

Budget

$22,428,990

Revenue

13-10-2000

Release Date

USGB

Country

6.7

Rating

243

Votes

Age Rating

126 min

Runtime

Released

Status

English, German

Language

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Director

Rod Lurie

Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic. Lurie's first foray into filmmaking, as writer and director, was the low-budget political thriller Deterrence (1999), with Kevin Pollak as the first Jewish President of the United States. The characters (in his films) of President Jackson Evans (The Contender), prison inmate Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin (The Last Castle), FBI agent Paige Van Doren (Line of Fire), and vice presidential nominee Gen. (ret.) Warren Keaton (Commander in Chief) are all fictional graduates of the "Long Gray Line".

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