TANNER 88

Details

• Release Year: 1988
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics, in which actors Michael Murphy (as contender Jack Tanner) and Cynthia Nixon (as his daughter) rub elbows on the campaign trail with real-life political players Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Bob Dole, Ralph Nader, Kitty Dukakis, and Gloria Steinem, among many others. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the complete eleven-episode television series—more relevant today than ever.
• Cast: Michael Murphy; Pamela Reed; Daniel Jenkins; Matt Malloy; Ilana Levine; Cynthia Nixon; Jim Fyfe; Veronica Cartwright; Frank Barhydt; Wendy Crewson; Sandra Bowie; Kevin J. O'Connor; Richard Cox; Greg Procaccino; E.G. Marshall; Andy Stahl; Harry Anderson; Tom Mehigan; Stephen Kelly; David Alan Grier; Joe Banks; Daniel Butler; John Elko; Larry Black; Gregory McKinney; Ken Daly; Waylon Jennings; Lorianne Crook; Malcolm Jenkins; Charlie Chase; Danny Darst; James Cowan; Frank Saulino; Robert Gerringer; Patricia Falkenhain; Cleavon Little; Michael Poisson; John Considine; Betty Lee Bogue; Jeff Daniels; Stephen Altman; Cameron Thor; James 'Gypsy' Haake; Kelly Pino; Ned Bellamy; Al Garrison; Wiley Moore; Rick Hudson; James Blanchard; Kenneth Leon; Vincent Brock; Julius Carry; Kitty Dukakis; Sidney Blumenthal; Dorothy Hutton; G. David Hughes; Kent Whipple; Clementine Barfield; Hodding Carter III; John Calkins; Kim Dixon; Laurie V. Logan; Jack Heath; John Cowan; Vera Rucker; Lynne Russell; James Terry; Marshall Fallwell Jr.; William Moore; Earl Henderson; James Davidson; Bruce Babbitt; Patt Derian; Ruth Allen Palmer; Larry 'Doc' Elliott; Paul G. Kirk Jr.; Kurt Sutter; Rebecca De Mornay; Peter Edelman; Joan Cushing; James Valentini; Mack Palmer; Michael Joseph; Alice Carter; Ralph Nader; Sam Bush; Aviel Ginzburg; Dorothy Sarnoff; Marsha Jones; Gloria Steinem; Kim Cranston; Pamela Ginzburg; Pat Flynn; Nick Scarmach; Harold Bibb; Linda Ellerbee; Bela Fleck; Art Buchwald; Mickey Leland; Ed Murray; Sandra J. Burud; Steven Marshall; Ed Markey; Thomas C. Wheeler; Anthony Williams; Lee Hamilton; Harlow; Rod Reinhart; Chris Matthews; Studs Terkel; Debby Dale Mason; Vincent Eason; Mary McGrory; Lois DeBerry; Steve Qtmc Coleman; The Hip Hop Force; Robert S. Stallings; Kirk O'Donnell; Bob Squier; Charles Todd; Gary Hart; Pete Pastore; Jesse Jackson; Bob Dole; Dee Nelson; Pat Robertson; Cynthia Levin; Lowell Weicker; Charlie Webb; Randall Robinson; Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush; Albert B. Cooper IV; Robert Altman; Garry Trudeau
• Director: Robert Altman
• Runtime: 5:53
• Company: Sandcastle 5 Productions, Sundance Channel, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Series