‘The Ideas of March’ is a movie about an idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

The movie is based on the play by Beau Willimon.

George Clooney plays presidential candidate Governor Mike Morris. Armed with a rock solid campaign manager in Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Gosling as the media savvy Stephen Myers, Morris is the perfect candidate. He says the right things and better yet, people believe in him. More important to this story, Stephen believes in him.

The Ides of March is definitely about politics, but more specifically it’s about ideals.

TIFF reviews the movie and claims that there is little room for error in George Clooney’s The Ides of March, a political thriller that moves at a brisk pace and seemingly ends just when it could be beginning.

He is basically the Michael Jackson of Directing, says Ryan Gosling praising the writer, director George Clooney.