Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)

A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate.

Director:

David Gordon Green

Writers:

Peter Straughan (screenplay), Rachel Boynton (documentary)

Stars:

Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sandra Bullock	...	Jane
Billy Bob Thornton	...	Pat Candy
Anthony Mackie	...	Ben
Joaquim de Almeida	...	Castillo
Ann Dowd	...	Nell
Scoot McNairy	...	Buckley
Zoe Kazan	...	LeBlanc
Dominic Flores	...	Hugo
Reynaldo Pacheco	...	Eddie
Louis Arcella	...	Rivera
Octavio Gómez Berríos	...	Pepe
Luis Chávez	...	Abraham
Azucena Diaz	...	Claudia - Talk Show Host
Damian Delgado	...	Velasco
Nina Leon	...	Rivera Reporter

Storyline

In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Gallo hires American James Carville's political consulting firm, Greenberg Carville Shrum, to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. GCS brings in Jane Bodine to manage the campaign in Bolivia. Battling her arch nemesis, the opposition's political consultant Pat Candy.

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Plot Keywords:

politician | bolivian politician | bus | bare butt | election | 

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Taglines:

May the best campaign win.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language including some sexual references

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Movie Site

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

30 October 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Experta en crisis

Filming Locations:

Tulane University - 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$28,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$3,238,433, 30 October 2015, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$6,998,324, 13 December 2015

Company Credits

Production Co:

Participant Media, Smokehouse Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sandra Bullock, in 2006's The Lake House, and Zoe Kazan, in 2014's In Your Eyes, played leads in movies where they were spiritually connected with their male co-stars.

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Goofs

When the characters speak in Spanish, most of them have Mexican accents (including and most obviously Eduardo Camacho.) No real Bolivian accents are heard in the movie.

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Quotes

Jane: That's the world, that's politics. That's how it works. It starts out with big promises and ends up with jackshit happening. But like the man said: "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

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Connections

Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Sandra Bullock/Rod Stewart (2015)

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Soundtracks

Spanish Dances, Op. 23: No. 5, Playera
Written by Pablo de Sarasate
Performed by Jaime Laredo, Violin and Margo Garrett, Piano
Courtesy of Dorian Recordings
By arrangement with Source/Q and Naxos

User Reviews

Playing both sides

'Our Brand is Crisis' is based upon the apparently true story of the wholly cynical manipulation of a presidential campaign in a Latin American country. With such subject matter, one would expect it to come across a lot more dark but unfortunately, this movie has a fairly laconic, wishy-washy feel to it. The promised head-butting between the two leads (Thornton and Bullock) comes across more as half-hearted ironic flirtation. The attempt at sentimentality at the end seems forced. I believe this movie would have played better as an unrepentant dark comedy, and also get the sense that it should have been a made-for-t.v. movie. There are some terrific location shots, apparently filmed in Bolivia, where the movie is set.