The Front Runner (2018)
"Gary Hart was going to be President. Instead he changed American politics forever."
ThumbScore
👍 61%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 60%
(RT: 58%, MC: 61) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Molly Ephraim as Irene Kelly
Alex Karpovsky as Mike Stratton
Is The Front Runner good?
It's divisive. 61% audience score, estimated from 391 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 60%.
Overview
Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life. Wikipedia ↗
