Swing Vote PG-13
One ordinary guy is giving the candidates a reason to run.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 7, 2019
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kevin Costner, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane & Stanley Tucci | |
Performer: | George Lopez, Madeline Carroll, Judge Reinhold, Willie Nelson, Mare Winningham & Richard Petty | |
Directed by | Joshua Michael Stern | |
Edited by | Jeff McEvoy | |
Screenwriting by | Joshua Michael Stern & Jason Richman | |
Composition by | John Debney | |
Produced by | Jim Wilson & Kevin Costner | |
Director of Photography: | Shane Hurlbut | |
Executive Production by | Robin Jonas, Ted Field, Terry Dougas & Paris Kasidokostas Latsis |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
But away from the cutesy stuff there are some surprisingly sharp digs at the political process.
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Guardian
3 stars out of 5 -- It's broad and easygoing, more in tune with Frank Capra's swooning Americana of decent souls fighting the glum machinations of the system....[This] parable is political satire at its most laid-back...
Empire
Rating: 2/5 --
What starts out as a hokey satire on electioneering and spin becomes a hokey lesson on civic responsibility, with a catch in the throat and a tear in the eye. Try to suppress the curl in your lip.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 2/4 --
Swing Vote seems to be suggesting that the voter deserves a better class of candidate; allow me to suggest that the viewer deserves a better class of film.
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Washington Times
Rating: 6.5/10 --
Swing Vote has its moments, especially when Grammer or Hopper are around, but it's trying to do too much ... there's so many ideas floating around in there, it all ends up being very shallow.
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ComingSoon.net
It's a sentiment Capra might well have echoed, though he would surely have punched up the gags while he was at it.
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CNN.com
Hayseed nonsense, folksily scripted. Whenever it becomes too much - or too little - close your eyes and think of Frank Capra.
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Financial Times
Product Description:
Writer/director Joshua Michael Stern (NEVERWAS) tackles American politics in his second feature film. Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner) is just your below-average Joe. He works in an egg factory, likes to knock back a few too many beers, and is a single parent to 12-year old Molly (Madeline Carroll), a bright spitfire who does her best to keep her dad on the straight and narrow. Patriotic Molly insists that apathetic Bud do his civic duty and vote in the upcoming presidential election, a tight race between Republican incumbent Andrew Boone (Kelsey Grammer) and Democratic candidate Donald Greenleaf (Dennis Hopper). Soon the media and both candidates descend upon Bud's hometown of Texico, New Mexico, when it's determined that his vote wasn't counted and will decide the outcome of the entire presidential election. Now that Bud is a "somebody"--there's even a "Bud Cam" capturing his every move--will he be swayed by visits to Air Force One and the "Bud Ball" held in his honor, or will he be the voice of the American people and vote for the better candidate'
The lengths the candidates go to in order to win Bud's vote are high points of the film, as they find themselves supporting initiatives that are completely opposed to their platforms at the urging of their campaign managers, played by Stanley Tucci and Nathan Lane. Grammer is well cast as Boone, and it's a hoot to see counterculture icon Hopper in this light. Costner makes Bud likable despite the loser stereotype he personifies. But this film belongs to Carroll, a lovely young actress who can steal a scene with one look. If nothing else, SWING VOTE is a reminder that even though politics may be a game, every single vote really does count.
The lengths the candidates go to in order to win Bud's vote are high points of the film, as they find themselves supporting initiatives that are completely opposed to their platforms at the urging of their campaign managers, played by Stanley Tucci and Nathan Lane. Grammer is well cast as Boone, and it's a hoot to see counterculture icon Hopper in this light. Costner makes Bud likable despite the loser stereotype he personifies. But this film belongs to Carroll, a lovely young actress who can steal a scene with one look. If nothing else, SWING VOTE is a reminder that even though politics may be a game, every single vote really does count.
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- UPC: 738329232238
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