Hugh Jackman is The Front Runner in the new trailer

Based on Matt Bai‘s 2014 book All the Truth Is Out, Hugh Jackman plays Gary Hart, the Democratic politician.

In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart a dashing, reform-minded Democrat seemed a lock for the party s presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspapers stakeout of Hart’s home resulted in a media frenzy the likes of which had never been seen before.
Through the spellbindingly reported story of the Senators fall from grace, Matt Bai, Yahoo News columnist and former chief political correspondent for “The New York Times Magazine, “shows the Hart affair to be far more than one mans tragedy: rather, it marked a crucial turning point in the ethos of political media, and the new norms of life in the public eye. “All the Truth Is Out “is a tour de force portrait of the American way of politics at the highest level, one that changes our understanding of how we elect our presidents and how the bedrock of American values has shifted under our feet.”

The film also stars J.K. Simmons, Vera Farmiga, Alfred Molina, Mamoudou Athie, Josh Brenner, Kaitlyn Dever, Sarah Paxton, Ari Graynor, Tommy Dewey, Molly Ephraim, Spencer Garrett, Toby Huss, Mike Judge, Alex Karpovsky, Mark O’Brien, Kevin Pollack, and Steve Zissis.

The Front Runner opens in the US on 21st November 2018 and hits the UK on 25th January 2019.