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Recount

starring: Kevin Spacey

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929026104
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 4268
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008



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Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 08/19/2008 Run time: 116 minutes

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At 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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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Recommend
Very good movie. It was interesting to see the goings-on behind the scenes. It did a fair job of ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - recount
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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Democracy at work?
Recount is a dramatization of what went on behind the scenes during the 2000 presidential election. The ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Art or Life?
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - We was ROBBED!
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