Making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival tonight is Rob Reiner's latest drama, LBJ. The film follows the tumultuous political career of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson, whose failure to secure the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination led to his position as Vice President under John F. Kennedy, a position that changed on that fateful day in November of 1963. 

While Bryan Cranston stepped into the shoes of LBJ in the TV movie All the Way earlier this year, Texan-born Woody Harrelson now takes on the role of the very proudly Texan president. As this fantastic first clip shows, Harrelson--and the script--portrays the president as a human being first, rather than a caricature. This short first look at the film is full of humor and personality even when it has nothing at all to do with the politics of the day. If Harrelson gets to deliver a few more anecdotes like this, it'll be well worth the price of admission.


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