The Kennedys rally to put Jack in the White House, but their difficult past illuminates a deeper struggle. โPeople talk about the curse that seems to echo down the generations of the Kennedys and in a certain sense itโs true,โ says Tom Wilkinson. โAnd if you are going to see it in the kind of Greek tragedy sense, there isnโt a better sort of patriarchal figure than Joe Kennedy because his world view was extreme. His world view was: ambition, money and family. Itโs almost medieval in its simplicity โฆ but almost everything else went by the boards.โ -Tom Wilkinson