Dir. Ali Abbasi
2024 | 120 mins | Canada, Denmark, Ireland
Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova

Showing Times

• Fri 25 Oct: 1.10pm + 8.40pm
• Sat 26 Oct: 2.15pm + 8pm
• Sun 27 Oct: 6.15pm + 8.45pm
• Mon 28 Oct: 1.05pm+8.40pm
• Tue 29 Oct: 3.30pm + 8.40pm
• Wed 30 Oct: 3.30pm+6.10pm
• Thu 31 Oct: 12.45pm + 7.30pm

A Faustian bargain lies at the heart of Ali Abbasi’s stunningly crafted dramatisation of Donald Trump’s early career in New York.

A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make a name for himself and escape his father’s shadow in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the cutthroat attorney who became his mentor and would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé — someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Continuing his observation on the nature of power that he began in Border and Holy Spider, Abbasi here widens his perspective to examine a city in the throes of a power grab and we travel through the different decades and changing fortunes of New York, as it emerged from near-bankruptcy to become a financial behemoth with Trump and Cohn.

BBFC Rating

CTBA 18