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Summary
A look behind the curtain of Washington politics following three "renegade" Republican Congressmen as they bring libertarian and conservative zeal to champion the President’s call to “drain the swamp.”
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- Friends night
- Teens
- Drop-in friendly
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics and audiences agree
Critics 67Audiences 64GoodWatch 66
Tomatometer67%
IMDb6.6
Audience score61%
Running time
1 h 54 min
Longer than most documentaries, +18 min on the typical 96
typical 96114Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 78 countries, rent or buy in 1 more
+68Released
2020
August 4, 2020
6 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
and 3 moreDirecting · 2
- Daniel DiMauro Director, Writer, Producer
- Morgan Pehme Director, Writer, Producer
Writing · 1
- Marc Vives Co-Writer, Editor
Production · 5
- Aaron Saidman Executive Producer
- Eli Holzman Executive Producer
- Shirel Kozak Producer
- Fredrik Stanton Producer
- Matthew Whitworth Producer
Camera · 1
- Stefan Wiesen Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Ben Cortes Associate Editor
Sound · 3
- Kyle Scott Wilson Original Music Composer
- Eliott Taylor Dialogue Editor
- Tom Tierney Sound
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