Oscar winning actor Sean Penn, two time academy award nominee Jude Law, five-time academy award nominee Kate Winslet, and Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins star in this riveting story of a humble man's rise to political power and the destructive force of corruption and betrayal that would ultimately unravel his soul. Based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 classic Pilitzer Prize winning novel and co-starring James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo and Patricia Clarkson.