When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.
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One candidate for the presidency dies in an accident a couple of weeks before the election. Meanwhile the alderman Mays Gilliam becomes a hero when he rescues a woman and her cat from an old house that would blow up. However his fiancee Kim does not pay his bills and dumps him, and Gilliam loses everything including his fancy car. When Senator Bill Arnot sees the news on television, he plots a scheme with the party advisors Martin Geller and Debra Lassiter to invite Mays to be the party nominee and lose the election for the other candidate, Vice-President Brian Lewis. Four years later, he would be the candidate and would have the chance of winning the election. Mays has a terrible beginning of campaign but when his older brother Mitch Gilliam meets him in Chicago, he advises Mays to be himself. Will he have the chance to be the first African American President of the USA? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The only thing white is the house.Genres:
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28 March 2003 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Président par accident See more »Box Office
Budget:
$35,200,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$13,503,484 (USA) (28 March 2003)Gross:
$37,788,228 (USA) (6 June 2003)Company Credits
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Written by Frank Perilla, Michael Munford, Ashton Marks, Michael Marceau & Akira Otsuka
Performed by Bob Perilla's Big Hillbilly Bluegrass Band
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Part of the presidential debate is a verbatim repeat of Monty Python's Argument Sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Money Programme (1972). See more »Goofs
When the Gaines for President bus rolls through the Midwest, with the light behind it, you can see that the bus is empty. See more »Crazy Credits
In the opening credits, it lists many famous politicians, then in parenthesis it says "(Are not in this movie)". See more »Soundtracks
Mays the ManWritten by Frank Perilla, Michael Munford, Ashton Marks, Michael Marceau & Akira Otsuka
Performed by Bob Perilla's Big Hillbilly Bluegrass Band
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I thought it was really funny but they should have taken out some really stupid parts. Like in the begginning of the movie Chris Rock girlfriend was terribly annoying. Some of the dialouge Chris Rock said was supposed to be funny but it wasn't. Some of the programs the goverment ran were really stupid and they just put it in there to make it PG-13. Ex: Prostitutes. Anyway... Bad company was a lot better. Rent that instead.