The Ides of March

“Ambition seduces. Power corrupts.”

Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling) is a young press secretary who believes in his candidate, Governor Mike Morris (George Clooney), and in the Democratic primary he is working to win. Then the campaign's phone calls, private meetings and rival offers begin to show him how the game is really played. George Clooney keeps the story in the back rooms with Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), where Stephen's idealism, and his career, stand to be used as currency.