Lizzy Caplan, 42, stars as Alexandra Mullen, President Mullens’ daughter and a current congresswoman. Alexandra is often publicly at odds with her father and is named as the head of the Congressional Oversight Committee formed to keep an eye on her father’s investigation.

Ripped out of the underbelly of modern America as much as the headline, the Robert De Niro-starring Zero Day will show it can happen here.

As a result, some of the most important cultural texts are political thrillers, because they distill the paranoid, uncertain feeling of the moment (be it All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor,