The Deal

British director Stephen Frears' political docudrama The Deal was originally broadcast on Channel 4. The film is based on the real-life events that elevated Tony Blair to the seat of Prime Minister. The film shows how the hard-working, but not head-turning, Gordon Brown (David Morrissey) and the ...more

The Deal, the prequel to Helen Mirren's Oscar-winning vehicle The Queen, serves as a starring vehicle for Michael Sheen, who plays former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in both films. Just as The Queen wove archival footage of Princess Diana throughout its narrative for augmentative purposes, The Deal features clips from the early '90s, when Margaret Thatcher and the long-reigning Conservative Party were leaving office and the cutthroat battle for power in the English government burned at a ...more