United States
1988
353 minutes
Color
1.33:1
English
258
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics, in which actors Michael Murphy (as contender Jack Tanner) and Cynthia Nixon (as his daughter) rub elbows on the campaign trail with real-life political players Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Bob Dole, Ralph Nader, Kitty Dukakis, and Gloria Steinem, among many others. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the complete eleven-episode television series—more relevant today than ever.
| Jack Tanner | Michael Murphy |
| TJ Cavanaugh | Pamela Reed |
| Alex Tanner | Cynthia Nixon |
| Hayes Haggerty | Kevin J. O’Connor |
| Stringer Kincaid | Daniel Jenkins |
| Emile Berkoff | Jim Fyfe |
| Deke Connors | Matt Malloy |
| Andrea Spinelli | Ilana Levine |
| David Seidelman | Richard Cox |
| Molly Hark | Veronica Cartwright |
| Stevie Chevalier | Sandra Bowie |
| Joanna Buckley | Wendy Crewson |
| General John Tanner | E.G. Marshall |
| Frank Gatling | Frank Barhydt |
| Director | Robert Altman |
| Screenplay | Garry Trudeau |
| Producer | Scott Bushnell |
| Cinematography | Jean Lepine |
| Art direction | Stephen Altman and Jerry Fleming |
| Editing | Sean-Michael Connor, Alison Ellwood, Mark Fish and Ruth Foster |
| Supervising film editor | Dorian Harris |
| Line producer | Mark Jaffee |
| Associate director | Allan Nichols |
| Associate producer | Matthew Seig and Frank Barhydt |
| Political consultant | Sydney Blumenthal |
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DOUBLE-DISC SET:
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