Chappaquiddick (2018)

The aim and intent of this movie is to chronicle an event in history, one that well summarizes the argument against dynastic political figures (and one that most probably will be overlooked by the electorate).  It is not what you would call riveting, but the message is clear.
The movie plot can be summed up by one of the first sentences uttered by then Senator Ted Kennedy (ably played by Australian actor Jason Clarke) after escaping from a sunken car that he drunkenly and unfortunately drove off a bridge into shallow water on July 18, 1969: “I’m not going to be president.”
Never mind that he was right. At that point, there’s a more pressing issue at hand: A young female passenger named Mary Jo Kopechne is gasping for air and slowly expiring in the back seat of his vehicle. But in his privileged world, saving his own behind and preserving what’s left of the legacy of his family strangle hold on state and national politics in the aftermath of the assassinations of his two brothers is his primary duty. He wouldn’t officially report the accident for another 10 hours or so, more than enough time for Kopechne to have been rescued according to authorities who arrived the next day.  Manslaughter or murder, you decide, but it is an unsavory story told unflinchingly.