Rewind for Recount
By David Usborne in New York
It is possible that by 25 May the Clinton-Obama drama will be resolved and we will have a Democrat nominee for 2008. (I stress possible, depending partly on what happens next Tuesday.) If so, political junkies will not need to despair thanks to the cable network HBO which on that date will release Recount, a film starring Kevin Spacey, Dennis Leary, Tom Wilkinson and Laura Dern about another not so distant episode of high anxiety (and, for some, pure despair) in American presidential politics.
If I mention hanging chads, the Supreme Court and Florida, you will know which one I mean.
Posters began popping up across Manhattan this week and the first trailers are beginning to surface too. The early word is that the movie is worthy of one viewing or more.
Who doesn't want to watch Spacey playing the increasingly desperate Ron Klain, the former chief of staff to Al Gore, or Ms Dern impersonating Katherine Harris, the Florida Secretary of State? So chilling his her portrayal, we are told, that you can put aside any questions you may have about the political bias of the film's makers. This is not just a drama, it's a tragedy.
Which means that not everyone will be a fan of this film. Certainly not Antonin Scalera, Justice of the Supreme Court, who earlier this month angrily denied on 60 Minutes, the CBS news magazine, that the ruling from the Court that eventually handed Florida and therefore the 2000 election to George Bush was in any way political. Professing boredom with the whole thing, he implored us to "get over it".
HBO is clearly calculating that there are enough people out there not ready to do any such thing.
Excellent. When are we going to see it in the UK?
Posted by: Boudicca | 30 April 2008 at 07:22 PM