The butler/gardener without a past (an on-form Peter Sellers) through happenstance becomes a close confidante of powerful advisors and the prez himself. Despite knowing nothing of the world - he has never ventured out of the brownstone where he lived and worked all his life - his simplistic utterances are profoundly resonant in the corridors of power and the media.
A parallel might be drawn here between yesteryear's Hal Ashby and today's Alexander Payne: inherently decent, high quality, upper-level entertainment.
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