20 Movies With Fake US Presidents, Ranked
More than merely the leader of the free world, the American president has become a popular figure in movies through the years. But fake presidents might have an even tougher road than their real-life counterparts. They may have to face a comet hurtling toward the planet or a sinister organization trying to take down the government.
With Independence Day: Resurgence and the 2016 presidential election on the horizon, we have ranked, by Metascore, those film with the funniest, bravest and most inspirational fake POTUSes in recent cinema history.
The disaster movie Deep Impact came out the same summer as the more successful film Armageddon, but the latter didn't feature Morgan freakin' Freeman. He plays President Tom Beck, and, in 1998, it was pretty progressive to have an African-American president in office, even if it was just a summer action flick.