Last Party 2000 (2001)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Directors:

Rebecca Chaiklin
Donovan Leitch

Release Date:

29 January 2003 (France)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting...

Plot Keywords:

Campaign | Election | Protest | Democratic National Convention | Politics

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman	...	Himself - Narrator
Ben Harper	...	Himself
Noam Chomsky	...	Himself
Harold Ford Jr.	...	Himself (as Rep. Harold Ford Jr.)
Tim Robbins	...	Himself
John Sellers	...	Himself
Susan Sarandon	...	Herself
Christopher Shays	...	Himself (as Rep. Christopher Shays)
Bill Maher	...	Himself
Rosie O'Donnell	...	Herself
Melissa Etheridge	...	Herself
Courtney Love	...	Herself
Antonia Novello	...	Herself (as Dr. Antonia Novella)
Rudolph W. Giuliani	...	Himself (as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani)
The Interpreters	...	Themselves

Also Known As:

The Party's Over (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M | France:U

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Camouflage Productions Inc.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Representative Barney Frank is first introduced on screen, he was mistakenly identified as a Republican. In fact, he is a Democrat.

Quotes:

Rage Against the Machine: [referencing the Democratic National Convention] Apparently there's some other show going on across the street here, but it's all sold out.

Movie Connections:

Features "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986)

Soundtrack:

Once in a Lifetime

Very informative, but clearly biased.

I don't think that there could have been a better choice than Philip Seymour Hoffman for this film. He is without a doubt the most unbiased person involved in the entire production. The rest of the film is well done and presents a very interesting take on the state of politics in the country today. Toward the end, however, the liberal bias which was kept in check for the first three quarters of the film became extremely apparent. The portrayal of the election aftermath is predictably one-sided and undermines the objectivity of the film, and in turn the argument it makes calling for a change in politics.