Recount Trailer Online
Posted by Rodneyon 08. 05. 2008in News Chat
Political movies seem to be getting the attention lately. Not that the genre is new, but has it ever been such a hot button? With a movie like Oliver Stone’s W portraying Bush in film while he is just barely walking out of office in real life are we really surprised that the events we shake our heads at are being made into films?
Recount is a film to relive the turbulent moments in the closest election in US history being decided by one state’s demanded recount. The cast looks awesome.
Directed by Jay Roach (Meet The Parents, Austin Powers), and starring Kevin Spacey stars as Ron Klain, former Vice President Al Gore’s Chief of Staff, John Hurt as Warren Christopher, who supervised the contested Florida recount, Laura Dern as Katherine Harris, former Secretary of State for the State of Florida, Tom Wilkinson as James Baker and Denis Leary as Michael Whouley.
In a world where political blunders are the very nutrients that comedians like to feed on, we like to wait until the body gets cold before laughing at the knife, but there seems to be a wave of movies that have too much fun with this. I am not complaining as I see a great deal of fun to be had at their expense.
Check out the trailer:
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dennis leary! im in.
I had the chance to work on this film when they shot here in Florida. Amazing cast and I’m proud to have been a very, very small part of the production!
I was with in the marine corps at the time on a the USS Saipan. We were on six month deployment for the Mediterranean and we completely confused as to who would our next Commander in Chief. There were people who didn’t want a damn thing to with Bush and there people who didn’t want a damn thing to do with Gore. Of course once the overseas votes did get home the Veep tossed them. I guess democracy only works when your doing the counting.
Looking back now I don’t know who would have been worse.
Gore is a lying buSINess man and bush is a puppet of the NWO.
Also I don’t need a movie to tell me the elections are cleary rigged.
Geesh.. take away the only thing that makes us a Democracy. I can honestly say that I was not and am not a Democrat. However, the way I seen the Rep in power act the past decade, I am forced to choose the lesser of 2 evils. The election was stolen and Bush makes me sick. I am appalled that we have not fixed these issues. The movie was good though and great acting imo.. even some republicans are quoted in the LA times to say it was a fair depiction as to what happened. Note that everyone involved in the movie of course would like to say it should not be mistaken for a documentary.
Since it is a national election and not a state election, can someone please tell me why all states do not vote on the same kind of voting machine for a Presidential election? It should not be up to each state.
@WB,
The flawed US voting system is a long discussion best suited for political blogs.