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Data provided by Consumet and Tmdb APIIn 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.
Jack Tanner
T.J. Cavanaugh
Alex Tanner
Hayes Haggerty
Stringer Kincaid
Emil Berkoff
Deke Connors
Andrea Spinelli
Molly Hark
Billy Ridenhour
Joanna Buckley
Stevie Chevalier
David Seidelman
Barney Kittman