Recount

2008

Action / Drama / History

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 32 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 14108 14.1K

florida government presidential election politics politician usa politics

Plot summary

In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.

Director

Jay Roach Photo
Jay Roach

Top cast

John Hurt Photo
John Hurt as Warren Christopher
James Adomian Photo
James Adomian as George W. Bush
Laura Dern Photo
Laura Dern as Katherine Harris
Adam LeFevre Photo
Adam LeFevre as Mark Herron
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1.04 GB
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English 2.0
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29.97 fps
1 hr 56 min
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English 5.1
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29.97 fps
1 hr 56 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Quinoa1984 8 / 10

totally fair? maybe not, but neither is American democracy

Recount goes over familiar territory, and for some it will be like opening up a wound that's been covered for several years only to find the pus is still fresh and rotten. Whether you're a democrat or republican- for the latter, of course, your man "won" in the end- a lot of the details in the story of the Florida electoral results in the 2000 Presidential election just flat out stink of corruption and mismanagement. It displays a failure on the part of what should be a somewhat reliable process in an already faulty system (i.e. electoral college, besides the point). What lessons can be taken from the Florida story? Pretty much the story, and the film, acts as a referendum on how things can get so (bleeped), on each party side- democrats not strong enough in the fight at crucial beats, republicans acting like bullies- and the only hope is that it never gets this wretched again.Whatever thoughts on the issues one will have, it's a worthwhile TV movie based just on the cast alone. Director Jay Roach, usually responsible for silly comedies like Austin Powers and Meet the Parents, tackles the drama with a firm hand (if not the sturdiest camera- hand held of course) on his large group of thespians. Kevin Spacey hasn't been this good in years, and Leary is a welcome presence as a Gore campaign member. Also very noteworthy are small parts for John Hurt, Ed Begley Jr, Bruce McGill. But best of all are Laura Dern in a harrowingly funny turn as dumb-bell Katherine Harris and Tom Wilkinson as tough lawyer James Baker, who comes off as icy as one might expect playing a loyal cadre of the Bush family. They make the movie compulsively watchable, even as the details of the case- the dimple chads, the discrimination, the BS protester problem in Miami-Dade, and ultimately the ruling of the supreme court- make one very sick about the madness unraveling.
Reviewed by jabandrade 8 / 10

The biggest electoral fraud of the 2000s.

Good movie, which tells the story of the biggest fraud in the history of the majority elections in the USA. In 2000 Al Gore had more votes than George W. Bush, but an articulated coup between the government, Florida delegates and the national Republican command and then with the disqualifying Supreme Court contribution, which suspectedly prevented the counting of votes that would confirm Gore's victory , the result turned shamefully and Bush was eventually elected. His victory ended up being decisive in making a series of disastrous diplomatic decisions, obscure relations with future terrorist leaders and consequently wars in the Middle East that claimed the lives of thousands of people, deteriorating relations between the countries of that region and that made the world totally insecure .
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