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<font size="4"><br>Tanner '88</font>
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<br>DVD review James Newman</font>
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<p>The presidential campaign trail is the original television reality show; however, it has become so overly scripted that little genuine reality seeps into the process anymore. Director Robert Altman (of <i>Nashville</i> and <i>M*A*S*H</i> fame) and writer Garry Trudeau (of <i>Doonesbury</i> fame) tackle this subject in <i>Tanner '88</i> by manufacturing their own presidential candidate, a little-known Michigan congressman named Jack Tanner (played by Michael Murphy), and sending him out on the campaign trail to rub elbows with Bob Dole, Gary Hart, Pat Robertson, Jesse Jackson, and others.
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