State of the Union is a 1948 drama film directed by Frank Capra about a man’s desire to run for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President, and the machinations of those around him. The "New York Times" described it as “a slick piece of screen satire...sharper in its knife-edged slicing at the hides of pachyderm schemers and connivers than was the original.” The film was written by Myles Connolly and Anthony Veiller and based on the 1945 Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.