Take a trip back to those relatively halcyon days of 2015, when politics were relatively digestible as fed to us by a mugging Jon Stewart, with the trailer for the comedian-turned-director’s latest, Irresistible.
Steve Carell stars as a Democrat political consultant trying to make inroads with the rural Midwest by getting a Dem veteran (Chris Cooper) elected mayor of a small Wisconsin town. For whatever reason, the exceedingly small mayoral race ends up national news, attracting a Republican consultant (Rose Byrne, as bleached as so many a Republican consultant) to the rival side. And you just know Steve (and we!) will learn some clunky lesson about how maybe both sides aren’t so different after all. Deep down, we’re all part of the brotherhood of man, living in the greatest country in the world! Or something like that.
We’ll get the specifics when Irresistible hits theaters May 29.
