Man of the Year PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 20, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robin Williams & Christopher Walken | |
Performer: | David Alpay, Lewis Black, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Linney, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, James Carville, Rick Roberts, Dave Nichols, Faith Daniels & Dave Nichols | |
Directed by | Barry Levinson | |
Edited by | Blair Daily | |
Composition by | Graeme Revell | |
Cameo: | Chris Matthews | |
Produced by | James G. Robinson | |
Director of Photography: | Dick Pope | |
Executive Production by | David Robinson, Guy McElwaine, David Coatsworth & Rob Fried |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/4 --
Trust me, a sloppily-edited, unmanageable insult to the intelligence with far too many shortcomings to deserve any further analysis.
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EURWeb
Rating: 3/5 --
Uneven, but never less than entertaining.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Levinson has written and directed in many genres. But rarely has he made a film as indecisive and diffident as Man of the Year.
Chicago Tribune
Rating: 2/5 --
Man of the Year has some nice ideas and a handful of excellent scenes, but it struggles to find the right tone and is hamstrung by a ridiculous plot point.
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ViewLondon
There are good moments, although it doesn't work properly either as a satirical thriller or a rom-com.
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Financial Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Political comedy morphs into attempted thriller in this confused, fitfully entertaining film.
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BBC.com
This being Robin Williams, it's hard to find his routines as vote-winningly hilarious as they're meant to be.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
Robin Williams and writer-director Barry Levinson, who worked together on 1987's GOOD MORNING VIETNAM and 1992's TOYS, reunite for the political thriller/romantic comedy MAN OF THE YEAR. Williams stars as Tom Dobbs, the host of a comedy talk show who, fed up with the political system, suddenly decides to run for president. So off he goes on a national bus tour, joined by his manager, Jack Menken (Christopher Walken), and his head writer, Eddie Langston (Lewis Black), bringing his message of change to an eager public. Meanwhile, Eleanor Green (Laura Linney), who works for Delacroy, the company that has developed the voting machines being used by the government, discovers a serious glitch in the program that alters the results of the election. She tries to tell the company's CEO (Rick Roberts) and chief counsel/spokesman (Jeff Goldblum), but they want everything hushed up so their stock prices aren't affected and their upcoming international deal goes through. Unable to hold back the truth, Green looks to Dobbs for help while being hunted down by Delacroy. Levinson, the director of such successful films as DINER, AVALON, and WAG THE DOG--the latter also set in the political arena--has crafted a fast-paced, seriocomic look at 21st-century America, especially since the possible voting problems encountered in the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Part Jon Stewart, part Bill Maher, part Ross Perot, Dobbs is a funnyman who decides to do something about the sorry state of the country.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 129,362
- UPC: 025193232625
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