Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate and noted folk music singer, also enjoyed a short-lived career as an actor, briefly appearing in a couple of films in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Vermont senator had more than two minutes on screen in the 1999 romantic comedy My X-Girlfriend’s Wedding Reception, playing a baseball-obsessed rabbi named Manny Shevitz who rambles extensively about the Brooklyn Dodgers during a wedding toast.

Although the film is nearly 20 years old, the character of Shevitz still looks and sounds much like Sanders in his speeches today (or, like this parody account). For instance, Shevitz becomes increasingly agitated while making a speech celebrating a newly married couple that devolves quickly into a lament on the Dodgers moving to Los Angeles.

“I remember when the Dodgers played the Yankees, and you bought a ticket – that ticket was good for 10 years,” Shevitz says. “Now you go to the stadium and you look out on the field: you see the Red Sox, the Orioles, the Cleveland Indians, but you don’t see the Yankees versus the Red Sox.”

Sanders is not the only one seeking office to have spent some time on film. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared as himself for a few seconds in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York to give young Kevin McCallister – on his own in New York City – directions to the lobby in the Plaza Hotel.

Many have also compared Trump with Biff Tannen, the bullying and villainous character in Back to the Future Part II. The connection was confirmed by the film writer, Bob Gale, who told the Daily Beast last year that Biff was based on Trump.

Other leading presidential candidates have not yet enjoyed time in fictional on-screen worlds, although Hillary Clinton will change that with a guest appearance on Broad City this year.

Only one contender will eventually win the presidential election come November.So in case any of the losing candidates are looking for a career change, here are some other film roles for each one to reprise.

Ted Cruz as Reverend Parris in The Crucible

• (originally played by Bruce Davison)
  

Cruz, who played Reverend Parris in a staged adaptation of The Crucible during his first year at Harvard Law School, could readily reprise the role in Arthur Miller’s allegorical play about McCarthyism. A highly polarizing figure, Cruz has drawn the hate of seemingly everybody in politics and beyond, much like the irredeemable Reverend Parris did.

As the Boston Globe noted in 2013, Parris’s lines – “Do you understand that I have many enemies? There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit. Do you understand that?” – still apply to Cruz today. It also helps that the presidential candidate somewhat resembles Joseph McCarthy, the Republican senator and anti-Communist organ whose public accusations toward hundreds of Americans inspired Miller to write The Crucible.

Cruz, however, is busy working on his audition for Princess Bride.

Hillary Clinton as Meredith Morton in The Family Stone

• (originally played by Sarah Jessica Parker)
  

Remember The Family Stone? Sarah Jessica Parker plays the struggling, uptight, neurotic Meredith Morton, a high-up New York executive who cannot bond with her boyfriend’s snarky, liberal family. Clinton – who has worried about likability – has already been cast as the Meredith Morton of politics. The scene in the film where Meredith attempts to play charades with the Stone family evokes the same painful awkwardness that rises when Clinton promotes T-shirts with her face on it, that say “Yas Queen” – all in an effort to connect with the youths.

Jeb Bush as Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s Vacation

• (originally played by Chevy Chase)
  

Bush’s painfully awkward campaign thus far has been the equivalent of Clark Griswold’s disastrous attempt to drive his family across the country to get to the Walley World theme park (the Griswolds get there eventually only to find that the park is closed).

In the film, the bumbling Clark does many foolish things, like accidentally drag a dog from the back of his car and not notice that his aunt Edna has died in the backseat. Recent gaffes by Bush, who is trailing far behind Cruz and Trump in the polls, include the Republican presidential candidate prompting an audience at New Hampshire campaign event to “please clap” and telling a college student who said he will be a first-time voter: “I want to be your first.”

Marco Rubio as Lieutenant Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Top Gun

• (originally played by Tom Cruise)
  

Rubio, a trained-and-true staunchly conservative politician, has doggedly pursued political office since the age of 24, and became Florida’s youngest and first Cuban American speaker of the house. No points for second place for Rubio, who is quite like the highly skilled, highly ambitious Maverick in Top Gun. Furthermore, Rick Santorum, who recently dropped his presidential bid, endorsed Rubio, making the former Pennsylvania senator the perfect Goose to Rubio’s Maverick.