Recomptage

Original title: Recount

TV Movie
2008
TV-MA
1h 56m

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A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.

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7.3/10

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Won 3 Primetime Emmys
- 10 wins & 34 nominations total

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Trivia
Because of the extensive parody of Katherine Harris in the media, Laura Dern expressed great apprehension over how to approach the character. Dern convinced Executive Producer and Director Jay Roach to allow her at least three takes for every scene: one underplayed, one "medium", and one way over-the-top, so Roach could help guide her performance.

Goofs
Ben Ginsberg states that Bill Daley's father "stole it for JFK," referring to the belief that Chicago mayor Richard Daley rigged the vote in Illinois in 1960. Kennedy would have still won the electoral college without Illinois.

Quotes
Ron Klain: The plural of "chad" is "chad"?

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull/Cleaner/Recount/War, Inc./The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

Soundtracks
I Won't Back Down
Written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne
Performed by Tom Petty
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under License from Universal Music Enterprises

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Featured review

8/10

Excellent story of Florida Fiasco

There are two immutable facts that were brought out in this excellent film: one, Florida looked absolutely ridiculous in the way they conducted elections; and two, the 2000 election was absolutely stolen.

Florida will forever be stigmatized by butterfly ballots and hanging chads. The fact that election officials in some sixteen counties refused to do the machine recount as ordered shows the incompetency of our officials.

The recount notwithstanding, the manipulation of the voter roles and the subsequent disenfranchisement of 20,000 voters by the clownish Katherine Harris, played perfectly by Laura Dern, casts a permanent stain on the legitimacy of the Bush presidency.

The fact that the details of this movie were well known did not detract one bit from its enjoyment. It was compelling and exciting and the performances of stars like Kevin Spacey, Tom Wilkinson, and Dern made you forget that you knew the ending.