Very good comedy, but not factual whatsoever. It was very interesting in the beginning of the movie, but also a little too obvious. They tried to make Ron Klain, whose story this is, as a unbiased author by having the Gore administration demote him in the administration. But the story was very heavily biased and that was why it got the Emmy.
I loved David Boies as the klutz and class clown. I thought they really went overboard in making Katherine Harris the ditzy villain. James Baker came across as ruthless, but I still thought was well played by the British actor Tom Wilkinson.
But the movie flat out lied in the beginning by switching the positions. In the movie, Gore wanted all of Florida recounted. In real life, Gore only wanted the most liberal counties recounted, while it was the Bush campaign, led by Baker, that demanded a recount of the entire state. The movie also lied when it implied that Pat Buchanan was amazed by the number of votes he got and thought Gore clearly won Florida. That was not what happened. Buchanan, in an interview during the recount, said he was not at all surprised he got so many votes in Palm Beach because he lives there, has breakfast at the pancake house down the beach and talks politics regularly with the patrons there. The movie was not at all truthful. But at least it was a little funny.
I loved David Boies as the klutz and class clown. I thought they really went overboard in making Katherine Harris the ditzy villain. James Baker came across as ruthless, but I still thought was well played by the British actor Tom Wilkinson.
But the movie flat out lied in the beginning by switching the positions. In the movie, Gore wanted all of Florida recounted. In real life, Gore only wanted the most liberal counties recounted, while it was the Bush campaign, led by Baker, that demanded a recount of the entire state. The movie also lied when it implied that Pat Buchanan was amazed by the number of votes he got and thought Gore clearly won Florida. That was not what happened. Buchanan, in an interview during the recount, said he was not at all surprised he got so many votes in Palm Beach because he lives there, has breakfast at the pancake house down the beach and talks politics regularly with the patrons there. The movie was not at all truthful. But at least it was a little funny.