Irresistible (2020 Film)

Irresistible is a 2020 political comedy written and directed by Jon Stewart. It starts Steve Carrell as the lead Gary Zimmer, as well as Chris Cooper, Topher Grace, and Mackenzie Davis.

Gary is a political spin agent for Democrats; his ex Faith Brewster does the same for Republicans. After a depressing election year aa 2016, he becomes inspired on seeing a viral video of an everyman named Jack Hastings, a farmer and veteran who speaks out against a conservative mayoral candidate in his hometown Deerlaken, based in Wisconsin. Gary knows that Democrats need a viable stream of everyman candidates to win, and flies to Deerlaken to convince Jack to go into politics. Jack at first demurs because of the farm duties, his desire for a quiet life and that he's not a naturally gifted speaker. After talking with his daughter Diana, Jack agrees to run, if Gary becomes his campaign manager.

Now that Jack's on board, Gary thinks he has this campaign in the bag. Should be easy enough to elect an American hero to a mayor position. Only problem: the RNC gets wind of this and sends Faith to support incumbent Mayor Braun. The battle becomes personal, as Gary prepares to fight dirty to save Jack's campaign, much to Diana's dismay.

The movie's release was delayed but eventually came out to a series of limited theaters as well as Premium VOD.


 * Big Brother Instinct: Mayor Braun kept his little brother Ziggy from going to jail for oxycontin abuse. Morally ambiguous but very sweet of him..
 * Bittersweet Ending: For Gary, he's not thrilled that
 * Both Sides Have a Point: At the end, Gary and Diana have this. Gary rightly points out that Diana retorts that.
 * Dream Within a Dream: Comes up at the end of the movie. It seems that after
 * Earn Your Happy Ending: For Diana, this plays out by the end. It comes out that.
 * The Ending Changes Everything: Turns out that.
 * Foreshadowing: The local bakery lady keeps pressing sweets into Gary's hands, refusing payment despite his insistence.
 * Graceful Loser:
 * Faith is slimy, catty and manipulative; she admits that the took up the call to arms to help Mayor Braun to spite her ex Gary..
 * While Gary isn't thrilled to learn that, he also eventually adopts this attitude.
 * He Who Fights Monsters: Discussed by Gary and Diana when he considers leaking a scandal about Mayor Braun's brother Ziggy. Gary points out that the RNC would do the same to Jack if the roles were reversed. Diana asks if the campaign is worth it if it means hurting an innocent man, because she knows Ziggy and it was a personal affair between the brothers.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: It comes out that pretended ot be ignorant.
 * Once More, with Clarity: The movie starts with a viral video of Jack calling out Mayor Braun for his anti-immigrant attitude.
 * Relative Error: Invoked by the mayor. He feeds Gary a story that he has an illegitimate child. The news finds out with some mortification that the child was his niece.
 * Was It All a Lie?: Gary soberly asks She has to point out she's 28 and he's in his fifties. There was nothing there with that kind of age gap.