I saw the film adaptation of The Front Runner a few years ago when it came out, and thought it was fine if a pretty by the numbers political drama. Interesting to see now that the source text is actually a lot less… that. Rather than a direct telling of the final days of Gary Hart’s campaign, it’s a much more discursive work around the role of the media in politics, to what standards we hold our politicians, and what we all hath wrought as a result of letting this specific example happen.