In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics.

• Michael Murphy
• Pamela Reed
• Cynthia Nixon
• Kevin J. O'Connor
• Daniel H. Jenkins
• Jim Fyfe
• Matt Malloy
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