Synopsis: Rob Lowe is Paul Turner, a maverick political strategist who can spin even the worst hay into gold. With the help of a bright young assistant and a cynical investigator (played to sleazy perfection by Lowe's The West Wing co-star Richard Schiff), he struggles to keep his wayward clients—a philandering Kentucky governor and a California senator being blackmailed—in office and out of the scandal sheets. When Paul's methods are pushed to the breaking point, he takes a gamble on an unlikely client to prove that, even in the bloodiest of battles, sometimes you have to fight clean. [Synopsis courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival]
IFC Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the political drama “Knife Fight,” directed by Bill Guttentag. The film, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, stars Rob Lowe as a committed political strategist who must reckon with the truth about his job while working for a t...
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