During the 2002
Bolivian presidential election, Pedro Gallo hires James Carville’s American
political consulting firm, Greenberg Carville Shrum. He needs the firm to help him raise the numbers in his
campaign. GCS hires Jane Bodine to
manage Gallo’s campaign. Pat Candy
is a rival of Jane and he will be managing the campaign of another candidate
Victor Rivera.
This movie has a lot
of ups and downs. There are lulls
in scenes and then a mad race between campaign busses on a narrow mountain
road. Jane Bodine starts out in a real
lull with altitude sickness and is constantly eating some kind of potato chip
type food. She originally
doesn’t even like her candidate. Thornton seems an ominous presence but he’s not given
much to work with. He just stands
around spouting sentences. This
film does show that we might have a ‘better’ election system here but I’m not
too sure about that this year!!!
2* (I didn’t like this movie)
107
min, Comedy directed by David Gordon Green with Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob
Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida, Ann Down, Scoot McNairy, Zoe
Kazan, Dominic Flores, Reynaldo Pacheco, Louis Arcella.
Note: Imdb 6.1 out of 10, 34% critic 37%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*, Amazon 3.4* out of 5* with 249
reviews.
Special
Note: Filmed in Puerto Rico, La
Paz, Bolivia and New Orleans, Louisiana.
There is a 2005 documentary with the same title with James Carville and
a team of U.S. political consultants traveling to Bolivia to help Gonzalo
Sanchez de Lozada in his campaign for presidency.
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