All the King's Men

“Time brings all things to light.”

Louisiana in the 1950s, and Willie Stark (Sean Penn) is a small-town idealist running for office on his promise to speak for the poor. Jack Burden (Jude Law), a reporter who knows the state's powerful families, signs on to his campaign and watches the power change the man. Steven Zaillian adapts Robert Penn Warren's novel, and Jack, caught between Willie and his own past, is left to decide how much of himself he will trade for that proximity.