Today on Happy Second Fused, Jason Reitman goes political with his new film, The Frontrunner.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Hurwitz. Welcome to another edition of Happy Sad Confused.

I'm Josh, You're You. And Jason Reitman is the object of our attention today, the filmmaker behind

the newest film starring Hugh Jackman, Vera F Armiga, J.K. Simmons, a whole host of talented actors. It is now open, I believe, in New York and

Los Angeles, opening around the country, November 21st. This is a good one. This is a really good one. This one is based on the true story of Gary Hart.

If you're as old as me, you might remember Gary Hart was in fact the front runner for the Democratic nomination back in 1988 a really

charismatic interesting political player who was brought down by an extra

marital affair,

a scandal back when scandals like that,

kind of the landscape shifted

and that's sort of what this film is all about.

It's well worth your time, It features a great performance from our friend and buddy,

our everyone's favorite person, Mr. Hugh Jackman. And it's a really interesting take from Jason Reitman who's never directed a film quite like this before.

Shades of Robert Altman and Michael Ritchie. We talk all about that in this conversation.

A real pleasure to have a filmmaker who has

been kind of killing it from the start. If you're a film fan like I am you know that

Jason Wrightman came to prominence with his film Thank You for Smoking and

soon followed it up with the likes of Juno and up in the air.

Most recently this year he directed Charlie's Therin in their second

collaboration together. They of course teamed up on a young adult, but their

newest one back I think was in the spring it came out and on a lot of I think it's going

to pop up on a lot of critics year analysts it certainly could on mine it was a

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