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Focused on Adam Kinzinger The last Republican was one of the hottest documentaries at the Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Steve Pink (Hot tub time machine), the film chronicles the then-Illinois congressman as he breaks ranks with his Republican colleagues to criticize Donald Trump and join the committee on January 6. The film’s relevance has skyrocketed since Trump’s election last month.
In this exclusive trailer, Kinzinger can be seen revealing his motives. “It is not about a political point of view. It’s about what it’s like to turn against everything you’ve ever belonged to because of some red line you can’t cross,” he says, in a trailer that highlights both the serious and lighter aspects of Kinzinger’s story.
At TIFF, he he told THR that politics wasn’t the only focus of the film, also produced by documentary filmmaker Jason Kohn: “When I talked to Steve and the team their interest was the human element — what’s the cost to you and your future child?”
Although it was conceived and filmed before the outcome of the 2024 campaign was known, Trump’s resurgence has only given this film extra urgency. Kinzinger is expected to be a key voice of resistance in a chorus that has otherwise been largely silent in the weeks since the election. Major streamers and film distribution companies, for their part, have shown a noticeable lack of appetite for a film that criticizes the president-elect and have refused to buy it. The last Republican will be released through the MCDC documentary collective founded by Pink.
The documentary opens at the Film Forum in New York on January 3, and will spread to other cities in the coming months.
