"They want to Ruin You!" Sean Penn as LA gov. candidate Willie Stark, stumping to Lousiana's rural poor. - "Hicks" economically subjugated and politically disenfranchised by New Orleans 1930s powerbrokers. Based on the populist rise and fall of Huey Long, derided as a "dictator" by his opponents, but the politician who may well have driven FDR to sponsor Social Security and other programs that saved America from the Depression.
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