THE CANDIDATE

Thursday, October 23rd at 7:30 p.m.

The Loft at Cinema La Placita is downtown Tucson's outdoor movie series showing classic films in a beautiful plaza setting.
Screenings on Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m., May through October.
Admission is FREE, but donations are greatly appreciated.

THE CANDIDATE (1972)

"Although decades old, The Candidate still feels more resonant now than the year it was released. In fact, it's a satire so spot-on that it's often hard to distinguish when screenwriter Jeremy Larnar's script is trying to be funny ... yet it is very funny." - QWIPSTER'S MOVIE REVIEWS

Director Michael Ritchie (THE BAD NEWS BEARS, DOWNHILL RACER) once again shows his impressive ability to examine the American obsession with winning-at-all-costs in THE CANDIDATE, a scathing depiction of the hypocrisy and complexity in the American political world.
Bill McKay (Robert Redford), an idealistic young lawyer and son of a famous governor, is pressured into running for the United States Senate against the popular incumbent, with the assurance that he will lose and not have to give up his integrity or ideals. However, as the campaign deepens, he finds himself giving in, allowing himself to be manipulated as the polls slowly change and swing in his favor. Soon his backers decide that they want him to win after all. By the time Election Day arrives, McKay has become the person that he used to speak so vehemently against.
Working from an Oscar-winning script by former Eugene McCarthy speechwriter Jeremy Larner, Ritchie films THE CANDIDATE with a heavy dose of semi-documentary realism that makes for an emotionally engaging, and at times wickedly funny, movie experience.

The Loft at Cinema La Placita is located in the plaza of La Placita Village, on the southwest corner of Broadway and Church Avenue in downtown Tucson. The actual address is 110 S. Church Avenue. Please call the Cinema La Placita hotline at 520-326-5282 for rain schedule information.

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The Loft at Cinema La Placita is sponsored by Bourne Partners and the Merchants of La Placita Village, Shawn and Susan Halversen, Mark and Diana Pettit, Tucson Parks and Recreation, Nina Trasoff (Tucson City Council Ward 6), The Cruise Place, Twice As Nice, Betts Printing, Michael Keith and The Arizona Daily Star.