The Candidate (1972)

You wanna watch a good movie sometime? Try 'The Candidate'. They made it in 1972. S'all about this Bobby Kennedy-ish type kid played by Robert Redford. He's a good-looking community organiser who gets sorta dragged into running as a Democratic candidate for Senator in California. The cars and the interior design and the clothes are cool as hell. The whole vibe is pure Watergate, the whole sixties fall-out scene. The pay-off line, the last line in the movie, is a killer. I ain't even gonna spoil it for you. Natalie Wood has a cameo playing herself. So does legendary TV newsman Howard K Smith. (A dude I dig so much I named the only band I've ever been in after him.) At one point some comedian at a political roast says of Redford's chracter 'he shoots from the hip, and he's hip when he shoots', which pretty much sums up the whole film. If you wanna watch a good movie sometime, try 'The Candidate'.