Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to get an assist from their fellow travelers as a presidential election is on the horizon. This election year, there is a movie, The Apprentice, that is meant to ding up you-know-who.
That’s right. Hollywood is turning to a movie about Donald Trump’s rise to power, back in the 1970s and 1980s. Variety calls it “a scathing portrait of a young Donald Trump.” The movie made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is finding distributors all around the world but so far, there is no U.S. distributor. Is Hollywood afraid to go up against Donald Trump this cycle?
It was a big success at Cannes. The critics loved it and the audience gave it an eight-minute standing ovation. Then Trump’s legal team came into the mix.
What’s the problem? Censorship? Fear of angering Trump, who may be the next president? A history of political movies…
