Populism’s all well and good until the President starts renaming geographical features at random; I’m old enough to remember when we made fun of Central Asian dictators for that.
I've actually got that on my list of possible Family Movie Night movies. I haven't seen it, though, at least that I can remember, since it was first in theatres and wasn't sure if it stood up.
Always fascinated to think about Dave and The American President and the amazingly detailed sets they built of The West Wing. (And… the West Wing too of course)
Also a great meeting place of old and new visual effects: Optically composited, hand painted matte paintings and real-time motion control used to film digitally composited split screen.