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Actor: Kevin SpaceyBrand: HBO HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: HBO Home Video
Product features:
- HBO Films presents Recount, the true story chronicling the turbulent weeks in Florida after the 2000 presidential election. The film explores one of the most dramatic and controversial events in recent U.S. election history that shook a nation?s faith in the ability to stage a fair and open election. Recount takes a look at the ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events that would ultim
Movie Reviews of Recount
Movie Review: Taking the count...
Summary: 5 Stars
GOP members of Amazon wave an imperial hand and call this film "fair," on balance. That is missing the point. This was a catclysmic national tragedy the result of which many people are dead today -- leaders do matter. If 20,000 African-Americans were not thrown off the rolls, if punch card machines were not counted, bizzarely enough, by automated machines which tended to push the chads back in, if thousands of people were not confused by a ballot into voting for a candidate they despised (Pat Buchanan, who took their side), the world would be a very different one today. As usual, the tragedy was enabled by the dithering of stupid Democrats, who scared away at the first band of staged protesters, or first critical article in The New York Times.
I will say that the mimicry of the Florida atmosphere, the media circus, the direct excerpts from the opinions of the court, and the dead on impressions of Christopher, Boies, Harris (from scene one a nincompoop) and Baker are eerie. Even if a few scenes have been thrown in for dramatic effect, no one is a monster and all are scrambling for self-interested political gain. It happens that right was on the Democratic side. They had no clue how to use it. (Change, much?)
Taking the longer view, the very narrow establishmentarian means and methods flashed by both parties (corporate media, politicized courts, hired protesters, some vague abstraction called the hoi polloi out there, for which this is all being done for), go a long way toward explaining the mess we are in. Find a decent 3rd party, because the parties who brought us this, the Iraq/Afganistan wars, the bailout and the meager "recovery" will not do...much longer.
Summary of Recount
Movie DVDAt the height of the 2000 election season, CBS anchor Dan Rather quipped, "The presidential race is crackling like a hickory fire." Director Jay Roach (Austin Powers) recaptures that blaze in his smart HBO docudrama about the thriller in Palm Beach County. Written by actor Danny Strong, Recount bounces between the Sunshine State, Gore's Tennessee headquarters, and Bush's Texas stomping grounds. Gore adviser Ron Klain (an excellent Kevin Spacey) provides a privileged window into those weeks when the American public first became familiar with obscure terms like "hanging chad." (Since Klain has an ax to grind with the vice president, neither he nor Gore appear completely heroic.) First, the Democratic candidate pulls ahead; then he falls behind. Just as he prepares to concede, Klain's colleague, Michael Whouley (Denis Leary), spots an anomaly in the vote count, and the race continues. Enter eccentric Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris (Laura Dern, a certain Emmy nominee), who orders a recount, and former Secretaries of State Warren Christopher (John Hurt) and James Baker III (Tom Wilkinson), who oversee a process that ends up in the Supreme Court (where Ed Begley Jr.'s David Boies represents Gore). Produced by the late Sydney Pollack, who originally intended to direct, Recount skillfully integrates news footage with dark comedy, most provided by the foul-mouthed Whouley and Bush adviser Ben Ginsberg (Bob Balaban), who's still livid about JFK's victory over Nixon. If the Democrats come across as more sympathetic, the Republicans come across as more colorful--and strategically effective. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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