We found this movie on Netflix streaming. My wife didn't care to finish it but I did and found it to be a rather gripping story.
I have been a Patrick Wilson fan for some time, he is mostly overlooked because he makes it look so easy. Here he is Sam Ellis, a politician who is happily married, but he has a "tendency" let's say, to really notice the pretty girls.
His wife is played well by Lena Headey as Jeannie Ellis.
Sam is in the attorney's office and meets a pretty young lady who is slated to be a witness. Through this Sam learns about the online escort service, and he gets drawn in. Really drawn in, to the tune of $1000 to $2500 per hour with the "escort" who is really a prostitute.
The story is about the weakness of a man like Sam, in a powerful position and now being asked to run for US Senate, being unable to process the gravity of what he is doing. Letting the lure of sex with pretty strangers sabotage his marriage and political career. His failure to keep his pants zipped up!
Ray Winstone is good as the investigative journalist Coaker and Richard Dreyfuss is good as the old handler George Hiller who is taking Sam as a project to get him elected.
SPOILERS: Sam messed up real bad, and Coaker is ready to expose him. But Hiller prevails, Sam is actually elected to the US Senate, and in the last scene his is being admonished to treat this new job with respect, to keep himself out of trouble, to keep his zipper closed. He assures them he will, but as the movie ends we see him going to yet another hotel room to meet yet another "escort".
I have been a Patrick Wilson fan for some time, he is mostly overlooked because he makes it look so easy. Here he is Sam Ellis, a politician who is happily married, but he has a "tendency" let's say, to really notice the pretty girls.
His wife is played well by Lena Headey as Jeannie Ellis.
Sam is in the attorney's office and meets a pretty young lady who is slated to be a witness. Through this Sam learns about the online escort service, and he gets drawn in. Really drawn in, to the tune of $1000 to $2500 per hour with the "escort" who is really a prostitute.
The story is about the weakness of a man like Sam, in a powerful position and now being asked to run for US Senate, being unable to process the gravity of what he is doing. Letting the lure of sex with pretty strangers sabotage his marriage and political career. His failure to keep his pants zipped up!
Ray Winstone is good as the investigative journalist Coaker and Richard Dreyfuss is good as the old handler George Hiller who is taking Sam as a project to get him elected.
SPOILERS: Sam messed up real bad, and Coaker is ready to expose him. But Hiller prevails, Sam is actually elected to the US Senate, and in the last scene his is being admonished to treat this new job with respect, to keep himself out of trouble, to keep his zipper closed. He assures them he will, but as the movie ends we see him going to yet another hotel room to meet yet another "escort".