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Recount (TV)

HBO Classics

Recount

2008

Jay Roach

Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern ...

6.5

810

Drama A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida. Recount brings viewers behind the scenes at the controversial Florida recount. This illuminating, hugely entertaining film pulls back the veil on the headlines to explore the human drama surrounding the most controversial presidential election in U.S. history. Mixing news footage and verbatim dialogue into fictionalized ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Alessandra Stanley The New York Times	"An astute and deliciously engrossing film"	POS
United States	Travis Fickett IGN	"A fascinating telling of a contentious moment in American politics (...) The performance that everyone will be talking about is Laura Dern as Katherine Harris"	POS
United States	Troy Patterson Slate	"The core problem with 'Recount' lies in its being at once fatally cynical and touchingly naive about American democracy"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An efficient and relentless enactment of the strategists on both sides of the Florida controversy (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"'Recount' isn’t particularly funny, but undoubtedly works as farce (...) [It is] accomplished and useful in piecing together a sequence of events that seemed confusing and chaotic from the outside"	POS

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