Alan Alda and Barbara Harris star with Academy Award winner Meryl Streep in the Seduction of Joe Tynan, the critically acclaimed hit about senator (Alda) with presidential ambitions and the price he has to pay. Joe Tynan is a decent, hardworking senator whose job in Washington keeps him away from his wife (Harris) and family. Matters become even more complicated when he begins to develop a relationship with a civil rights activist (Streep) in this political drama where power and principles, like love and marriage, collide.