Title: The Candidate (1972 film)
Content:  The Candidate is a 1972 American political comedy-drama film starring Robert Redford and Peter Boyle, and directed by Michael Ritchie. The Academy Award–winning screenplay, which examines the various facets and machinations involved in political campaigns, was written by Jeremy Larner, a speechwriter for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy during McCarthy's campaign for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.
Title: The Candidate (1959 film)
Content:  The Candidate (Spanish:El candidato) is a 1959 Argentine drama film directed by Fernando Ayala and starring Olga Zubarry, Duilio Marzio and Alfredo Alcón. The film's sets were designed by the art director Mario Vanarelli.
Title: The Candidate (1964 film)
Content:  The Candidate (Aka: The Playmates for the Candidate, Party Girls for the Candidate, & Kisses for the Candidate) is a 1964 low-budgeted film that starred the 1950s sex symbol Mamie Van Doren. Co-starring in the film were June Wilkinson, Ted Knight, and Eric Mason; Rachel Romen, Robin Raymond, William Long, Jr., and John Matthews, played smaller less meaningful parts. The film had several different filming/release titles like: The Playmates for the Candidate, Party Girls for the Candidate, and Kisses for the Candidate; however, it is mainly known as being titled, The Candidate.
Title: The Candidate (1972 film)
Content:  The film won a Best Writing Oscar for Larner and was also nominated for Best Sound (Richard Portman and Gene Cantamessa).
Title: A Candidate for a Killing
Content:  A Candidate for a Killing is a 1969 Italian film. It starred John Richardson and Anita Ekberg. It was an early film credit for composer Bill Conti.
Title: The Candidate (1972 film)
Content:  The New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby called the film "one of the few good, truly funny American political comedies ever made," and commented that "The Candidate is serious, but its tone is coldly comic, as if it had been put together by people who had given up hope." Variety called it "an excellent, topical drama" that was "directed and paced superbly," adding, "the entire film often seems like a documentary special in the best sense of the word." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and praised Redford for a "winning performance." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Redford and Ritchie have teamed 
Title: The Candidate (1972 film)
Content:  mechanics as he does in the hands of the political movers), and little interest generated in the workings of a system that is only conjured up in a gallery of intermittently familiar names and faces." Christopher Null, from filmcritic.com, gave the film 4.5/5, and said that "this satire on an American institution continues to gain relevance instead of lose it." The film holds a 'fresh' score of 88% on review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes, based on 32 critical reviews with the consensus: "The Candidate may not get all the details right when it comes to modern campaigning, but it captures political absurdity perfectly -- and boasts typically stellar work from Robert Redford to boot."
Title: The Candidate (1964 film)
Content: Mamie Van Doren as Samantha Ashley ; June Wilkinson as Angela Wallace ; Ted Knight as Frank Carlton ; Eric Mason as Buddy Parker ; Rachel Romen as Mona Archer ; Robin Raymond as Attornery Rogers ; William Long, Jr. as Falon ; John Matthews as Sen. Harper 
Title: The Candidate (1972 film)
Content:  Robert Redford said that the film was made as "a labour of love" and was shot inexpensively and quickly. Redford and Ritchie had approached perhaps ten scriptwriters before offering the job to Jeremy Larner, who was under pressure to work quickly so the film would be out in time for the 1972 presidential election campaign; he had "about a month" to write the script, and wrote "exactly from noon to 3am every day" Larner, having worked as a journalist and speechwriter, said his "experiences with various politicians came into the story; I used some stuff that was directly from the campaigns". He also said 
Title: Jeremy Larner
Content:  In April 1971, Larner wrote a documentary-style script for a feature film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Robert Redford about a campaign for senator from California. The Candidate was released during the election of 1972, and was critically acclaimed; the film holds a score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes based on eighteen critical reviews.

Question: What genre is The Candidate?
Answer: documentary film.
documentary movie.
doc.
film documentary.
motion picture documentary.
documentary.
factual film.