As Americans have become more polarized, Hollywood appears to have shied away from telling overtly political stories. But some political messages fly under the radar.

Filmmakers and Hollywood financiers are baffled, to say the least, by President Trump’s announcement that he wants a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the United States.

Of course, this figure used to be plentiful — Hollywood relied on them to carry movies for decades. But sometime in the 1990s the movie-star factory started to falter, especially for men.