speaker of the house

Even if you’re not a fan of Nancy Pelosi – and you just might be by the end of this documentary – Pelosi in the House is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the sausage gets made.

Nancy Pelosi has said it before, and she says it again in Pelosi in the House: “You can’t get tired. You can never get tired.” The well-crafted documentary — filmed, written, and directed by her filmmaker daughter, Alexandra — explores Nancy Pelosi’s long life as a legislator. The homage includes warming humor, but, most of all, it includes Nancy Pelosi’s knowing voice and electric self. For all the excellence in Molly Ball’s Pelosi, the biographer could not transliterate Pelosi’s voice to the page. Alexandra Pelosi, exploiting her years as a documentarian and daughter, does that with élan and love and expertise, making Pelosi in the House moving and meaningful.