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January 1994 (USA)
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They Changed The Way Campaigns Are Won.
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A documentary of the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 wins
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(7 articles)
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The direct insight of the 1992 US elections
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Carville | ... | Himself |
| George Stephanopoulos | ... | Himself |
| Heather Beckel | ... | Herself |
| Paul Begala | ... | Himself |
| Bob Boorstin | ... | Himself |
| Michael Donnilon | ... | Himself |
| Jeff Eller | ... | Himself |
| Stan Greenberg | ... | Himself |
| Mandy Grunwald | ... | Herself |
| Harold Ickes | ... | Himself |
| Mickey Kantor | ... | Himself |
| Mary Matalin | ... | Herself |
| Mitchell Schwartz | ... | Himself |
| Dave Anderson | ... | Himself |
| Collier Andress | ... | Himself |
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96 min
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Al Gore:
Unemployment around the country has gone up; the number of jobs has gone down. The trade deficit has gone up; personal income has gone down. The budget deficit has gone up; consumer confidence has gone down. Poverty has gone up; the number of jobs has gone down. Bankruptcies have gone up, jobs, down; fear, up; hope, down; everything that oughta be down is *up*, everything that should be up is *down*; they've got it upside down, and we're gonna turn it right side *up!*
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Followed by The Return of the War Room (2008) (TV)
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Vote Baby Vote
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Although Bill Clinton became president of the United States, it was James Carville and George Stephanopolous won the elections in 1992. That seems to be what Hegedus and Pennebaker are telling us in their documentary The War Room, and for what it looks like, it must have been true. The democrats hadn't won an election in a long time. They, as people in charge of the Bill Vlinton electoral campaign changed the way campaigns would be run and seen. Or did they? History tells us that presidents have aways liked being presidents! They always tried to reach the audiences, always tried to use all the media at their disposals in the best of ways, and there always were people that managed their image and wrote their scripts. The premise seems to be pretentious and wrong. It is true, however, that this is possibly the one and only documentary that gives us such an insight of the organizing committee of a presidential campaign, and it is very interesting to see how things are run, and how people think. They are the underrated heroes. Before Clinton does anything, they think of it. In fact, we hardly ever see Clinton ourselves, which further strengthens the fact that it was them who won the elections, not him.
Pennebakes does what he does best: direct cinema. But in comparison to other direct cinema legendary films, this one is hard to get fully into. In fact, the scenes that we are allowed to get into through good editing and cinematography are great, but the rest is just annoying and confusing. Also, it's hard to keep track of all that goes on in the war room, and although that was never going to be easy to do, it should have been done better. Still, a lot of it is very good, and worth a look, because the concept, the most important thing in a direct cinema film, is very interesting, and now that we know how things ended, pleasant to watch (unless you're a republican...) WATCH FOR THE MOMENT - When Carville is asked by the media if Clinton went to Moscow. "Yes" answers Carville. He knows exactly what is doing.