“Recount” premieres on HBO this Sunday
A stellar cast bolsters Recount, an HBO film that details the insane events that happened in Florida during the 2000 Presidential Election.
The movie is supposed to be a highly entertaining look at the behind the scene action during those five weeks when the Supreme Court ultimately gave Florida to George W. Bush.
I’m sort of bummed I don’t have HBO right now…having turned it off after John Adams ended.
The cast is amazing: Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt, Laura Dern, Ed Begley Jr. and more.
The outline of who is playing who is below:
Kevin Spacey portrays Ron Klain, Vice President Al Gore’s former Chief of Staff. Tom Wilkinson portrays James Baker III, who was previously Secretary of State to President George H. W. Bush. Denis Leary plays Michael Whouley, national field director during the Gore campaign. Laura Dern portrays Katherine Harris, Secretary of State of Florida. Bob Balaban portrays Ben Ginsberg, national counsel to the Bush-Cheney campaign in the 2000 election. John Hurt plays Warren Christopher, former Secretary of State to President Bill Clinton. Bruce McGill plays Republican lobbyist Mac Stipanovich. Ed Begley, Jr. portrays attorney David Boies, who represented the Gore campaign before the Supreme Court.
The trailer for the movie is below, followed by the poster.
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Don’t hate yourself for not seeing this. It may be well acted but you lived through the events.
I see this is a push to sway votes in the upcoming election. Similar to the Michael Moore’s movie which will be coming out around November.
By the way this is from someone who voted for the Democrat the past two elections.
Am sick of the two party election and all the money spent for campaigns.
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no desire to see this film! i am having a hard time believing that michael “moron” moore is not tied to this film.
@ Dad - I agree…It’s amazing how much money is thrown away during these elections. I mean, simply amazing.
And even now, Hillary just wont quit, and continues to spend money.
Billary and the Clinton Machine are starting to sink like the Titanic.
@Kory -I agree, they’ve hit the iceberg and now it’s just a matter of time, but they’re too in denial to get in the lifeboat.
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Apparently, Danny Strong (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls) knocked this script out of the park. Pretty impressive for a first time writer best known as “that nerdy guy from Buffy”.
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All or most of the critics who have reviewed this film have just ignored that it’s alot more truthiness than truth.
Danny Strong, a first-time screenwriter, apparently felt the story of what actually happened in 2000 was not sufficiently compelling to attract Hollywood interest, so he conjured up a story line that had greater dramatic potential: George Bush won the 2000 recount battle because the Democrats–principally Warren Christopher and Bill Daley–were too weak, too genteel, to withstand the Jim Baker-led steamroller. Not even the heroic, efforts of Ron Klain, the only Democratic operative in Florida with the fortitude, foresight and foreskin to take on Big Jim could save the ship.
But Strong had a problem–how to establish the ineffectuality of the Democratic side of the fight. He decided to it by creating a scene or two in which Warren Christopher would utter words of compromise, naivete and illogic. In just a few screen minutes, Strong could establish a major, overarching theme of the film and, if he were lucky, could manage it without ever talking to Christopher.
When push came to shove, Strong realized that he had to cover himself and make contact with Christopher. He’s admitted (see NYT story by Ed Wyatt) that he waited to do so until the day the scenes involving the Christopher character were shot. He also admits that he refused Christopher’s request to review a copy of the script, even though he accorded that courtesy and beyond to Jim Baker, Ron Klain and others depicted in the film. (Baker and Klain were even given the opportunity to veto a scene that Strong says he made up.)
Christopher learned that the film was in production when his tailor told him he’d been retained to produce a suit for the actor who was to play him. In other words,Strong felt it was important to get the wardrobe right for the Christopher character, but didn’t regard the facts as rising to the same level of importance.
What Strong did not want Christopher to know was that the script contained scenes in which his character declares that the recount dispute can be compromised and that no lawsuits will be filed on behalf of Gore. Strong knew that once Christopher read or was told of such scenes, the jig would be up–that he’d have to confront the fact that he was about to distort beyond recognition the character of a man universally regarded as a quintessential litigator. A scrupulously ethical lawyer? Yes. Weak-kneed? Never.
The truly weak-kneed are those who blithely chalk off to “dramatic license” the gross distortions of the sort Strong has embraced, while simultaneously proclaiming reverence for the faithful preservation of history. Like it or not, today’s viewing public increasingly treats as fact what is fed to them as “docu-drama,” unaware that in most cases they are consuming an ounce of “docuâ€? to every gallon of “drama.â€? And like it or not, what they treat as fact becomes fact for others in this generation and those following. HBO knows what it’s doing when it promotes the film as “the story of the 2000 presidential election.â€? It’s encouraging its audience to swallow as absolute truth everything it’s chosen to put on the screen.
Does anyone know the name of that awesome piano bit by Dave Grusin? That music is just incredible, i’d love to learn how to play it. If anyone could find the name of the song, i’d be very grateful.
Thanks,
Steve
I didn’t get to see it Steve, so I am not going to be much help.
Please, anyone! I can’t find the piano piece anywhere, and I would love to use for an animation I’m doing.
Dave Grusen was the compopser for the musical score. He seems have a listing of something called:
Now Playing: Movie Themes - Solo Piano - 2005
Copy that and put it into Google and it will give you a link to Amazon.com where you can listen to samples and you can see if thats what you are looking for.
Although Dave was the composer for Recount, I can see nowhere where there is a listing of songs you can get or play, but he may have included this piano solo in the movie so try that. Good luck…