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The Apprentice

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Trump: the Origin Story. It is 1973. Flashy young real estate tycoon and man about town, Donald (Sebastian Stam) meets Machiavellian mob lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). It is love at first sight. Under Roy’s tutelage, Donald learns the three fundamental principles of success: always attack, never admit wrongdoing, always claim victory. The rest is history.

Iranian director Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider; Border) does something unexpected here: he has made an honest, even sympathetic film about a man moulded to make it in a corrupt, venal society… because at it’s core, this isn’t so much a take down of the future two-time President, it’s a take-down of America.

A cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job.

Donald Trump

Director

Ali Abbasi

Cast

Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan

Country of Origin

USA/Canada/Denmark/Ireland

Year

2024

Language

English

19+
122 min

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