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Swing Vote

  • 20082008
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
19K
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Kevin Costner in Swing Vote (2008)
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ComedyDrama
In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
19K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Joshua Michael Stern
  • Writers
    • Jason Richman
    • Joshua Michael Stern
    • David Giammarco(additional dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Kevin Costner
    • Paula Patton
    • Kelsey Grammer
  • Director
    • Joshua Michael Stern
  • Writers
    • Jason Richman
    • Joshua Michael Stern
    • David Giammarco(additional dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Kevin Costner
    • Paula Patton
    • Kelsey Grammer
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 92User reviews
    • 109Critic reviews
    • 47Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Swing Vote: What The Fuss Is All About
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    Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, and Joshua Michael Stern in Swing Vote (2008)
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    Kevin Costner and Madeline Carroll in Swing Vote (2008)
    Kevin Costner and Madeline Carroll in Swing Vote (2008)
    Kevin Costner and Madeline Carroll in Swing Vote (2008)
    Kevin Costner and Madeline Carroll in Swing Vote (2008)
    Kevin Costner, Mark Moses, and Madeline Carroll in Swing Vote (2008)
    Kevin Costner, Richard Petty, and Madeline Carroll in Swing Vote (2008)
    Madeline Carroll in Swing Vote (2008)
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    Kevin Costner and Paula Patton in Swing Vote (2008)
    Kevin Costner and Paula Patton in Swing Vote (2008)

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    Kevin Costner
    Kevin Costner
    • Bud Johnson
    Paula Patton
    Paula Patton
    • Kate Madison
    Kelsey Grammer
    Kelsey Grammer
    • President Andrew Boone
    Madeline Carroll
    Madeline Carroll
    • Molly Johnson
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    • Donald Greenleaf
    Nathan Lane
    Nathan Lane
    • Art Crumb
    Stanley Tucci
    Stanley Tucci
    • Martin Fox
    George Lopez
    George Lopez
    • John Sweeney
    Judge Reinhold
    Judge Reinhold
    • Walter
    Charles Esten
    Charles Esten
    • Lewis
    • (as Charles 'Chip' Esten)
    Richard Petty
    Richard Petty
    • Richard Petty
    Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    • Willie Nelson
    Mare Winningham
    Mare Winningham
    • Larissa Johnson
    Mark Moses
    Mark Moses
    • Attorney General Wyatt
    Nana Visitor
    Nana Visitor
    • Galena Greenleaf
    Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
    Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
    • Chief Running Bear
    Shawn Prince
    Shawn Prince
    • Jed
    Dale O'Malley
    • Hank
    • Director
      • Joshua Michael Stern
    • Writers
      • Jason Richman
      • Joshua Michael Stern
      • David Giammarco(additional dialogue)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Stanley Tucci's line "If you'd ever met my mother, you'd understand," was an ad-lib.
    • Goofs
      Air Force One is never allowed to sit idle on a runway with the President on board.
    • Quotes

      Bud Johnson: You guys protect the President!

      Lewis: She's... she's smarter.

    • Crazy credits
      "and introducing Madeline Carroll"
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The X-Files: I Want to Believe/American Teen/Brideshead Revisited/Step Brothers/Boy A (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Can't You See
      Written by Toy Caldwell Jr. (as Toy Caldwell)

      Performed by The Marshall Tucker Band

      Courtesy of Shout Factory, LLC

      By Arrangement with Natural Energy Lab

    User reviews92

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    8/10
    Costner's Charisma and a Couple of Sharp Jabs at Dems and Republicans
    "Swing Vote" is a good movie. It could have been great, but it isn't, but it is still good. At its best, it invokes Frank Capra's classic films on politics, including "Meet John Doe" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." It never reaches their level, though, and that failure to hit the top is a bit frustrating.

    An older, dumpier, and shabbier Kevin Costner is the best part of the film. Costner is a star and that shows here. Even the grunge that is his costume in almost every scene can't disguise his charisma. Costner's voice has not aged and he uses it to great effect, especially in a final speech.

    The film draws laughs by parodying our two major political parties, with a Democratic presidential candidate starring in the funniest anti-abortion TV commercial ever made (no doubt its competition was slim, but it is very funny) and a Republican presidential candidate touting his party's tender concern for the environment.

    These excellent scenes make you wish that the movie had gone deeper. It doesn't, though. It veers off into dead-end soap opera subplots about Costner's daughter's boyfriend from school and her attempt to live with her estranged mother (Mare Winningham, in a role that should have ended up on the editing room floor, as it contributes nothing to the film.) The casting wasn't great. The two presidential candidates and their aids end up being cardboard cut-out stereotypes of Machiavellian evil (Stanley Tucci) and compromise (Nathan Lane). Kelsey Grammar and Dennis Hopper, as the candidates, never transcend their "Frasier" and "Easy Rider" personas. Other actors, perhaps unknowns, should have been cast in these two key roles.

    Paula Patton, the woman who played what would have been the Barbara Stanwyck role in the Frank Capra movie, was pretty as a little doll and a complete bore. This is part of a pattern in today's Hollywood; female leads must have the perfectly perky looks of a plastic doll; there's no need for them to be talented. Male leads, like Costner, can be beat-up, and slovenly, but must be talented. Patton's role, that of the desperate, sharp, female reporter who gains inside knowledge of a national story, is underwritten, and she does nothing with it. It's a dead-end, and that's a shame. It makes me want to rewatch "Meet John Doe" in which Stanwyck worked so well as the female reporter.

    Overall, though, this movie is better than much else at the multiplex, and it at least ventures into the world of ideas.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 1, 2008 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Oyum kime?
    • Filming locations
      • Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
    • Production companies
      • Touchstone Pictures
      • Radar Pictures
      • 1821 Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $21,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $16,289,867
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,230,669
      • Aug 3, 2008
    • Gross worldwide
      • $17,635,397
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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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