“Be careful. These guys — they play rough. Their administration has been born in controversy, national shame, and illegality — and it is my bet that’s the way they’ll go out.”
The Special Relationship is the third and final movie in Peter Morgan’s Blair trilogy which included the other awesome movies The Deal, and The Queen. Once again Michael Sheen takes on the role of Tony Blair, and again he just works perfectly as Blair with all his triumphs and faults. Dennis Quaid plays Bill Clinton, more as a caricature than anything else. The real scene stealer is Hope Davis as Hillary Clinton. She often sounds like Hilary, and she’s pretty spot on especially when the film covers the Monica Lewinsky crisis. In many ways it’s not as good as The Queen or The Deal, but it’s a fitting end to the Blair Trilogy. Really it’s just sad that this didn’t get the theatrical release it deserved in either the United States or the United Kingdom.
