All The King39s Men Blu ray 2006

Oscar winning actor Sean Penn Best Actor, Mystic River, 2003, two time Academy Award nominee Jude Law Best Supporting Actor, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999; Best Actor, Cold Mountain, 2003, four time Academy Award nominee Kate Winslet Best Supporting Actress, Sense and Sensibility, 1995; Iris, 2001, Best Actress, Titanic, 1997; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004, and Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins Best Actor, The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 star in this riveting story of a humble man's rise to political power and the destructive force of corruption and betrayal that would ultimately unravel his soul, based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 classic Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Willie Stark Penn is an ordinary man from a rural town, demanding that crooked politicians and shady businessmen in Lousiana be held accountable for the collapse of a poorly built school. Urged to run for Governor by a dubious political advisor, Tiny Duffy three time Emmyr Award winner James Gandolfini, Lead Actor in a Drama Series, The Sopranos, 2000, 2001, 2003 Stark, finds his voice as a charismatic man of the people. He then befriends a young idealistic journalist, Jack Burden Law, who eventually ends up working for him. But when Stark asks Burden to dig deep for damaging information on an old family friend, Judge Montague Irwin Hopkins, Burden begins to question his own morality and Stark's surprising transformation into an inflexible leader that will stop at nothing to remain in power.