Poster Boy

A conservative politician who believes he can count on his family for support discovers his son is not the man he thought he was in this drama. Jack Kray (Michael Lerner) is a United States senator from the South whose right-wing views have earned him the nickname "the Nazi from North Carolina." ...more

Completed on the eve of the 2004 presidential election, Zak Tucker's Poster Boy is nothing if not timely. Aside from topicality and good intentions, the film is reasonably engaging and well acted. But it's also more than a little bit overwrought. The problems start with the character of the conservative Southern senator, Jack Kray (Michael Lerner). Lerner brings a little depth to the characterization, but Jack is essentially written as an ogre, and the filmmakers would have benefited, both in ...more