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List Price: $29.99Amazon.com's Price: $21.99 You Save: $8.00 (27%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936764734
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Touchstone / Disney
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 480
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Editorial Review:
Description:
Kevin Costner stars in Swing Vote, a clever, feel-good 'landslide comedy winner. So funny and inspiring, you'll stand up and cheer!' (Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com). Bud Johnson's an ordinary dad drifting through life, caring about nothing except his overachieving daugther Molly. Trying to encourage him to get involved, Molly accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day that ends with the presidential race coming down to one vote -- Bud's. Comedic chaos ensues as Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci and George Lopez give all-star support in a witty and uplifting film that's 'charming, funny, smart, touching and profound!' (Scott Mantz, Access Hollywood).
Amazon.com:
The ghost of Frank Capra is summoned up in Swing Vote, a populist comedy about the U.S. presidential election--because of an electoral deadlock--coming down to one man, one vote. Alarmingly (for the future of the world), that one man is Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner), a beer-swilling, newly-unemployed divorced dad in Texico, New Mexico. Bud's got a week to re-cast his flawed ballot, so the entire election process--including the two candidates, played by Kelsey Grammer and Dennis Hopper--descends on Texico for an orgy of campaign flapdoodle. Costner tries hard (probably too hard) to be the irresponsible good ol' boy, the kind of role he used to be able to handle with ease; by contrast, the composed Madeline Carroll, as his Little Miss Sunshiny daughter, comes off as a model of naturalism. Except for some pointed commercials, in which the candidates sell out their values to appeal to Bud's whimsical opinions on issues such as abortion and gay marriage, the movie's political bite is remarkably toothless. Both Stanley Tucci and Nathan Lane are in the groove as cutthroat campaign managers, and the movie is jolted out of its beery idle with a late one-scene performance by Mare Winningham. There's an interesting film trying to climb out of Swing Vote, but it needs Frank Capra to kick it into shape. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Can't Believe Costner & Crew Got Paid For This Turd!
What a pathetically lame movie. This wouldn't even qualify for a Lifetime movie. It was worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Costner has nothing to work with in his loser character. He over does his dimwitted laugh, guffaws his way through the movie. His "daughter" is so precocious, its not even believable.
Don't even waste the rental fee for this turd. Time to flush this one!!
Rating:  - Semi-tragic portrayal by Costner wins through in the end
I was impressed by Kevin Costner here. For this slightly seedy part, he has grown facial hair that makes him look like Ian Botham in his Shredded Wheat advert days, and he does a strange voice throughout the film. These affectations aside, he turns in a good performance as an alcoholic single father doing his best - and well, sometimes not his best, to bring up his daughter alone. His overachieving twelve year-old daughter is sympathetically played by Madeline Carroll, who keeps her part just on ... Read More
Rating:  - Has its charms, but mostly quite average.
SWING VOTE was filmed pretty much entirely in a small town near Albuquerque, New Mexico (where I live), so I was certainly interested in seeing the scenery and any local sites. Unfortunately, except for a couple of lovely scenes on the banks of the Rio Grande (standing in for the Pecos River), there wasn't much of our natural beauty. Lots of action takes place at a trailer park.
The rest of movie is equally disappointing overall. But frankly, it isn't surprising. The premise itself ... Read More
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