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between friends.(Gordon Brown and Tony Blair)(Brief article)
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck
Directed with a wonderful urgent pace by Stephen Frears, The Deal, which airs on HBO this month, is probably the best little film about big power ever made. It begins with the sentence "Much of what follows is true." That's the way the writer Peter Morgan proceeds, pulling apart historic moments to make a new kind of drama: The Queen on film, Frost/Nixon onstage, Longford on TV. The Deal is about competition, power, and politics, about a pact between an opportunist and a brooder. In 1983 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, both first-time members of Parliament, become friends. Blair, played by Michael Sheen (who also played Blair in The Queen and just finished a great run on Broadway as David Frost) is eager and bright, with big hair and a small chin. Gordon Brown (the six-foot-three David Morrissey) is a hulking, awkward Scot, moody and difficult, who spends too much time writing his speeches. The Labour Party is in political limbo. Brown is a committed old-fashioned Socialist; ...
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