The Dryden will screen The American President (Rob Reiner, U.S. 1995, 114 min., 35mm) as part of the Election Countdown series.

Recipient of the 2015 George Eastman Award, Michael Douglas stars in this beloved classic from the mid-1990s, when the world was at a relative peace, allowing presidents free time to pursue their romantic interests. "It is hard to make a good love story, harder to make a good comedy and harder still to make an intelligent film about politics. Rob Reiner's The American President cheerfully does all three, and is a great entertainment—one of those films, like Forrest Gump or Apollo 13, that however briefly unites the audience in a reprise of the American dream." — Roger Ebert

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Oct-31]