The Big Brass Ring

The Big Brass Ring (1999)

In pursuit of power, the only thing worse than denying the truth - is telling it.

Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past back to haunt him.

Date of release
1999-04-20
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
George Hickenlooper

Casting

Interesting facts

The Big Brass Ring is a 1999 drama film, starring William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob, Jefferson Mays and Miranda Richardson. The film's script was heavily rewritten by George Hickenlooper and F. X. Feeney from a previous screenplay written by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar in the early 1980s; Hickenlooper also directed the film.

Production

Welles had hoped to direct the film himself in the early 1980s, and to play the role of Minnaker (not least as he has been a "New Deal" Democrat close to Franklin Roosevelt), but he was unable to attract enough funding. He had been given a list of six "bankable" stars who could play Pellarin, including Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds, and was told by investors that if he could sign up one of them, then the film co…

However, Hickenlooper made substantial changes from the Welles script (published in 1987 by the Santa Teresa Press, Santa Barbara, California). Welles's script concerned Senator Pellarin, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1984 (closely modeled on Senator Gary Hart), and his troubled relationship with his disgraced homosexual mentor Kim Minnaker, a one-time Roosevelt New Deal Democrat who was now living in exile as advisor to the corrupt gove…

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