The Contender
Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot.
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival.When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.
- Director
- Rod Lurie
- Worldwide
- $22M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
28 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Contender returned 1.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $20M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $22M
- Release date
- Oct 13, 2000
- Runtime
- 2h 6m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- German, English
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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