Tomorrow is promised to no one

The cast in Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power - Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, E.G. Marshall, Dennis Haysbert, Richard Jenkins, Scott Glenn - is tough class. Their presence is impressive, downright dazzling. And the story of the President of the United States involved in a ghastly killing, and a burglar witnessing it, is brilliant. If they had paid more attention to the small details and cleaned up the mistakes, the film would be one of the greatest thrillers.