Ike Barinholtz is a politician on a mission.
According to an official synopsis,Maximum Truthis about a “documentary film crew following political grifter Rick Klingman (Barinholtz) as he teams up with fellow ‘operative’ Simon (O’Brien) to take down a rival congressional candidate.”
“Together they skirt around the fringes of polite society and protests anything in an effort to make money and a name for themselves.”
The hilarious trailer opens with Barinholtz introducing his character Rick, “an attorney and a political consultant” who assures his audience he is not, despite what many may think, “a con artist or a fraud or a dirty trickster, or he can’t name all three branches of government.”
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“And they’re wrong. I am simply a truth provider,” he adds.
“I have evidence that he may be a demon,” she tells Rick.
“It might be hard to prove,” he replies. “If it’s true, that’s a big deal.”
In his pursuit of the truth, Rick soon recruits the help of Simon (O’Brien, 31), who “led the boycott of Chipotle when they started serving soy-bizo.”
After a series of wacky scenes plays out showing Rick and Simon’s quest for information, Rick tells the camera, “The more I think about it and talk about it, I start to believe that truth.”
“Then it becomesthetruth,” he adds.
“Maximum Truthis a fun, irreverent comedy about political grifters seeking fame and money with no regard for morals, ethics or basic honesty. Imagine if something that crazy were to happen in America today," Barinholtz and Stassen tell PEOPLE.
“The hardest part of makingMaximum Truth, a story in which political grifters seek fame and money with no regard for morals, ethics or basic honesty, was finding inspiration in our current social landscape.”
The movie also starsKiernan Shipka,Mark Proksch(What We Do in the Shadows) and more.
Maximum Truthis in theaters and streaming June 23.
source: people.com
