经过数轮激烈角逐，影院新一届美国总统加勒特·沃克（迈克·吉尔 Michael Gill 饰）诞生，影院自称水管工的众议院多数党党鞭弗兰西斯·安德伍德（凯文·史派西 Kevin Spacey 饰）在其背后功不可没。然而高傲自大的政客弗兰西斯并未如愿当上国务卿，他为此恼怒不已，发誓要将背叛了自己的沃克拉下宝座。利用新总统拟推的综合教育改革法，弗兰西斯操纵《华盛顿先驱报》女记者佐伊·巴恩斯（凯特·玛拉 Kate Mara 饰）大做文章。初战告捷，他旋即指派手下对新政府展开新的围剿，同时巧妙化解躲避来自政敌的明枪暗箭。他犹如来自伊甸园的毒蛇，巧舌如簧，翻云覆雨，紧紧咬住所有人的弱点，以实现自己的目的。“没有永远的敌人，只有永远的利益”，这句话在弗兰西斯身上得到最佳体现……本片根据Michael Dobbs的同名政治小说改编。
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回复 :The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor plays Mick Hopper, who is doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine plays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it is not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.
