It's time for SorkinFest! For the next few weeks, we're going to talk about the work of Aaron Sorkin, and in our usual fashion we're going to do it in a way that the films are paired up by common threads.
This week we're looking at the films that were directed by Rob Reiner. First up is the 1992 film A Few Good Men, starring Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Pollak and Jack Nicholson. This one was adapted from Sorkin's own play script, but he's managed to make changes that make the story just as much of a mystery as a courtroom drama.
Next is The American President from 1995, starring Michael Douglas, Annette Bening and a bunch of people you'll see again when Aaron Sorkin takes a few elements of this film and turns them into his television series The West Wing. However, while The West Wing is a political show with a lot of comedy bits in it, The American President is a cross between a romantic comedy and a screwball comedy, with a political overlay on it.
