Irresistible (2020)

Directed by Jon Stewart · Comedy, Drama

Starring Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, Chris Cooper, Brent Sexton, Mackenzie Davis, Topher Grace, Natasha Lyonne, Bill Irwin, C.J. Wilson, Will Sasso, Alan Aisenberg, Kevin Maier, Tom Key, Matt Lewis, Vince Pisani, Kurt Yue, Denise Moyé, Andre Rodriguez II, Neal Reddy, Sasha Morfaw, Kelsi Macaluso, Will McLaughlin, Blake Jones, William Smith, Eve Gordon, Seam Fitzpatrick, Blair Sams, Pat Fisher, Christian Adam, Rebecca Ray, Nickolas Wolf, Robert J. Carlton, Ian Covell, Gretchen Koerner, Russell Davis, Matthew Knott, Andrea Frankle, William Tokarsky, Jason Kirkpatrick, Aaron Strand, Megan McFarland, Christopher Hampton, Parker Chapin, Bruce Altman, Debra Nelson, Aaron Marcus, Lisa Finlayson, Zele Avradopoulos, Swift Rice, Cathy Hope, Chelsea Banglesdorf, Steve Barnes, Kathleen Hogan, Annie Cook, Sandra Lee-Oian Thomas, Jason Davis, Pete Burris, Ryan Lewis, Jason Vendryes, Christian Ruiz, Katlyn Carlson, Desi Lydic, Doug Trapp, Karl Kenzler, Richie Moriarty, Andrea Cirie, Brandon Rush, John Schmedes, Richard Garner, Amor Owens, Chimere Love, Nate Stewart, Maggie Stewart, Brad Lund, Candy Crowley, Trevor Potter, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Charlotte Deleste, Eric Franke, Rick Yudt, Shane Berengue, Gloria Bishop, Andrew Blood, Fred Galle, Charles Green, Jennifer Hall, Thomas Mark Higgins, Jen Nikolaisen, Cliff Weissman, Russ Williamson, Debra Messing

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A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.

My review · Reviewed 10/21/2023

Jon Stewart did a masterful job of showing how broken the US political system is. In fact, he might have too good of a job - the scenes where truth does not matter eerily reflect the current political climate. That said.... it is not a great movie. It is neither dramatic nor funny, and the slow pacing of the movie makes it an even tough movie to get through. I did see some reviews that thought that Stewart was condescending towards the people of Deerlaken. I didn't get that at all as I thought that he painted them in a sympathetic light for much of the movie before completely changing their story later on. He was clearly taking shots at the operatives on both the left and the right.