Year: 1988
Duration: 01:57:02
Directed by: none
Actors: Harry Hamlin, Linda Kozlowski, Robert Loggia
Language: English
Country: USA
Also known as: Mi hijo favorito,Suosikkipoika,To timima,Fiul favorit,Günstlinge der Hölle,Um jeden Preis
Description:
Target: Favorite Son is the 115-minute abridgement of the three-part television miniseries Favorite Son. Adapted by Steve Sohmer from his very own novel, the film stars Harry Hamlin as a freshman senator from Texas who’s got “greatness pushed upon him” when he is inadvertently shot during the assassination of a going to Nicaraguan contra leader. Nearly as though rehearsed, Hamlin delivers an impassioned pro-contra speech–all of which is seen on live television. Upon recovering, Hamlin is selected by his party to run for the Vice President’s post. At the same time, FBI broker Robert Loggia investigates the assassination, and what he discovers could–to recycle the cliché–blow Washington DC wide available. Featured into the cast is James Whitmore once the President, whoever political opponents do their greatest to hound out of office to ensure the supposedly honest-and-aboveboard Hamlin can assume the Presidency. At the period of its very first telecast, Favorite Son got a lot of press play due to a scene wherein Linda Koslowski, playing the ambitious, oversexed mistress of Hamlin’s press aide, strips to bra and panties and asks certainly one of her boss’ assistants (Lance Guest) to link her up. Absolutely nothing more is shown, of program, but this small, nearly missable world ended up as the focal point associated with the whole series, such a long time as the clean-up-TV brigades had been worried. Favorite Son originally aired October 30 and 31, and November 1, 1988.
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the German language mini-series (172min) with the title “Günstling der Hölle” is available here:
http://www.nox.to/download/film/Guenstling_der_Hoelle.20098.html