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23 June 2000 (Spain) moreTagline:
You can't buy absolution...What you seek is something that can only be given. morePlot:
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
Accomplished, refined: pretty dull. more (22 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| William Hurt | ... | William Blake Pellarin | |
| Nigel Hawthorne | ... | Kim Mennaker | |
| Miranda Richardson | ... | Dinah Pellarin | |
| Irène Jacob | ... | Cela Brandini (as Irene jacob) | |
| Ewan Stewart | ... | Kinzel | |
| Gregg Henry | ... | Billy | |
| Ron Livingston | ... | Sheldon Buckle | |
| Jefferson Mays | ... | Garne Strickland | |
| Jim Metzler | ... | Pacxy Barragan | |
| Carmine Giovinazzo | ... | Young Billy | |
| Thomas Patrick Kelly | ... | Young Blake | |
| Mack Harrell | ... | Homer Dix | |
| Lisette Bross | ... | B.C. Dix | |
| F. Joseph Schulte | ... | Senator Jack Moorehead | |
| Peggy Freisen | ... | Gigi Moorehead (as Peggy Friesen) |
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Rated R for some graphic sexuality, and for language and some violence.Parents Guide:
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Continuity: In the scene just after Blake (Hurt) and Brandini (Jacob) make love, she is still in bed and is trying to encourage Blake to come public with the truth. She suggests that she might expose him if he doesn't. Blake then yanks the bed covers off exposing her completely naked body. But in the next second, closeup, she is seen with something covering her from the waist down. moreFAQ
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William Hurt plays Gubernatorial candidate William Blake, in the final days of his election campaign. Nigel Hawthorne is Kim Mennaker, a svengali figure from Blake's childhood, who lives in Cuba for some reason, and has evidence which can sink Blake's election chances. Actually, by halfway through the movie, half of Missouri seems to have this evidence, and why nobody actually uses it is about as bewildering as why Hurt wanders about all night with a monkey on his shoulder, which he had previously complained had urinated all over him - unless that's a pun on a monkey for his back.
As usual, William Hurt is boring (look, I'm sorry, but he just is). Nigel Hawthorne, on the other hand, is incapable of being less than good, though his character is really quite ridiculous.
An understated movie, which, I admit, has emotional subtleties and plot complexities which keep it above average, but which ultimately don't save it from being a bit soporific. I'll give it 6.0. Worth watching, but don't expect to be dazzled.