Cast Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman
George Clooney's The Ides of March is an acidic, fast-moving political drama of betrayal and disillusion. Ryan Gosling plays Stephen Meyers, the press secretary for Governor Morris (Clooney), who is running in the primary race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Meyers believes in the integrity of Morris (who eloquently backs almost every political view one imagines would be dear to Clooney's own heart). Winning the campaign - by almost any means -becomes his obsession, although he respects the governor's scruples. As the campaign continues, however, each character reveals his Achilles heel, and is netted in compromises because of it.