All the President's Men takes
the form of a political thriller with dogged journalists as the protagonists.
Alas, I suppose it's not the role of the filmmaker to inform us, as that is something we should be doing ourselves, so it's hard to be annoyed at Gaghan himself for making a purist
form of political thriller.
Not exact matches
It can be categorized as an underdog sports drama, a
political thriller, a history lesson in the Russian government
of the 50s, but most importantly it centers on the teacher / coach / student relationship and the close bonds that are
formed.
He says in an interview with one
of his book reviewers that he has «an interest in trying to make the issues and themes
of what is an esoteric, and often inaccessible subject matter, more accessible through putting it into a more generally acceptable
form, namely the
political thriller novel genre.»