Alan Alda's first film as director
Seduction can take many forms — fame, power, love. A U.S. senator has to deal with all three in the political drama “The Seduction of Joe Tynan,” starring, written, and directed by Alan Alda. The confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee propels the senator into the spotlight and makes him the target of variously motivated advisors, sparks conflict with old friends, and threatens his family life.<br /><br />Joe Tynan (Alda) is a liberal New York senator who has managed so far to gain political power without sacrificing either his principles or his home life. His ethics and marriage are tested when an opportunity opens for real power, possibly a spot on the national ticket. To clear a path to the White House, he will need to go against his oldest friend in politics, Senator Birney (Melvyn Douglas). His newest advisor, attractive lobbyist Karen Traynor (Meryl Streep), tempts him into an affair that threatens to dissolve his marriage to Ellie (Barbara Harris).<br /><br />“The Seduction of Joe Tynan” is the kind of movie that was popular in the 1970s — dramas that dealt with adult subjects and offered well-developed characters. (The next decade would see a shift to action pictures and comedies that skewed more to light entertainment and explosions than to social issues.) But it seems more like a made-for-TV than a theatrical movie. Shot on a limited budget, it has a very good cast but no big movie stars. Alda was making his name in television and Streep hadn’t yet reached star status. Universal, the studio that made “…Joe Tynan,” was turning out TV movies prolifically at the time, and the film might have been originally intended for television.<br /><br />The story follows a predictable trajectory with few surprises. Streep is very good as an ambitious professional interested  in Joe partly because he is a rising star in national politics and partly because of romantic attraction. With her self-assured eye contact, easy body language, and obvious ability to listen and persuade, she conveys intelligence. The way she looks at Joe shows she has more than politics on her mind.<br /><br />Alda looks the part of a young senator and carries himself with assurance and grace. Initially, he is happily married and is able to separate job from home life, but as that changes, teenage daughter Janet (Blanche Baker) becomes hostile toward him and Ellie increasingly distant. We see how he tries to maintain friendship with Senator Birney while knowing that he will soon have to oppose him. In later scenes, he practically pleads with Ellie to give him another chance to make their marriage work and he is convincing in his sincerity.<br /><br />Barbara Harris has a fairly meaty role as Ellie. Not merely the smiling wife who stands next to her husband at lecterns, she is deeply in love with Joe, protective of her family, and supportive of his ambitions. But she is no fool, and knows instinctively that her husband has been disloyal. Harris is an excellent reactor, and much her performance is in facial expressions that reveal her character’s thoughts.<br /><br />Charles Kimbrough (TV’s “Murphy Brown”) stars as Francis, Joe’s right-hand aide, and Rip Torn appears as rough-spoken, crude, womanizing Senator Kittner.<br /><br />Director Jerry Schatzberg (“Scarecrow”) presents the story in linear fashion, switching back and forth between Joe in Congress and Joe at home. A more interesting structure might have been to use occasional flashbacks to fill in backstories. In its present form, there’s little suspense, outcomes are easily anticipated, and the dialogue is mostly staged in static, non-cinematic locations. Some additional visual pizzazz would have enhanced the picture’s production value.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the Region A Blu-ray release include an audio commentary, several theatrical trailers, and radio spots<br /><br />“The Seduction of Joe Tynan” never rises above a routine political drama with few surprises. It’s nice to see Meryl Streep in a role just before she became a huge star. She gives us a hint, with her light Louisiana drawl, of the many accents she would adopt so believably in movies to come. But Alda simply doesn’t have the screen presence to completely inhabit Tynan. I never saw him as other than Alan Alda, while Streep, Harris, Douglas and Kimbrough morph into their roles effortlessly.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Alan Alda (The Mephisto Waltz) and Barbara Harris (A Thousand Clowns) co-star with acting royalty Meryl Streep (Silkwood) in The Seduction of Joe Tynan, the critically acclaimed hit about a senator with presidential ambitions and the price he has to pay. Alda, who also wrote the screenplay, is Joe Tynan, a decent, hardworking senator whose job in Washington keeps him away from his wife (Harris) and family. Matters become even more complicated when he begins to develop a relationship with a civil rights activist (Streep) in this political drama where power and principles, like love and marriage, collide. Directed by Jerry Schatzberg (Puzzle of a Downfall Child, The Panic in Needle Park) and produced by Martin Bregman (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon), this richly nuanced, finely acted film also features Rip Torn (Time Limit), Melvyn Douglas (Angel), Charles Kimbrough (TV’s Murphy Brown) and Carrie Nye (The Group)..