2024-10-09
7
122 min
new york city rape corruption aids funeral politics blackmail 1970s biography based on true story atlantic city lawyer debt bribery misogyny death of brother character study marital rape wiretapping mentor protégé relationship real estate discrimination degenerate 1980s closeted homosexual father son relationship brother brother relationship absurd malfeasance
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who 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.