14 Best Fictional Movie Presidents

9. The President (Billy Bob Thornton) - Love Actually

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Thornton thinks he chocolate (sorry!) as the President on a visit to Richard Curtis’ England. One small thread in a mash-up of love themed plotlines, Billy Bob’s version is specifically designed to make us all go ‘Grrr’ on this side of the pond.

Yes, this is a gentle-as-it-comes post-Iraq questioning of the terms upon which the US-UK special relationship was founded. With Billy Bob the Bully Boy bringing a touch of the bad Santas to his role.

And forcing Hugh Grant’s, in no way typecast, version of the politely-spoken PM to make a,

‘Gosh, I don’t know, bit of stand, as it were.’

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