When word started to leak that Steven Zaillian’s much-delayed adaptation of All The King’s Men was an unmitigated…

Cast
Sean Penn (Willie Stark)Jude Law (Jack Burden)Kate Winslet (Anne Stanton)Anthony Hopkins (Judge Irwin)Mark Ruffalo (Adam Stanton)Patricia Clarkson (Sadie Burke)James Gandolfini (Tiny Duffy)Jackie Earle Haley (Sugar Boy)Kathy Baker (Mrs. Burden)Talia Balsam (Lucy Stark)Travis Champagne (Tom Stark)Frederic Forrest (Willie's Father)Paul Desmond (Slade)Kevin Dunn (Alex)Tom McCarthy (Editor)Glenn Morshower (Commissioner)Jay Patterson (Senator)Michael Cavanaugh (Mr. Peyton)
Director
Steven Zaillian
Synopsis
Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
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Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel All The King's Men told the archetypal story of Willie Stark, a Louisiana politician…