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Synopsis: One candidate for the presidency dies in an accident a couple of weeks before the election. Meanwhile the alderman Mays Gilliam becomes a hero when he rescues a woman and her cat from an old house that would blow up. However his fiancee Kim does not pay his bills and dumps him, and Gilliam loses everything including his fancy car. When Senator Bill Arnot sees the news on television, he plots a scheme with the party advisors Martin Geller and Debra Lassiter to invite Mays to be the party nominee and lose the election for the other candidate, Vice-President Brian Lewis. Four years later, he would be the candidate and would have the chance of winning the election. Mays has a terrible beginning of campaign but when his older brother Mitch Gilliam meets him in Chicago, he advises Mays to be himself. Will he have the chance to be the first African American President of the USA?
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Chris Rock
Production: DreamWorks SKG
  10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
30%
PG-13
Year:
2003
95 min
$37,788,228
Website
550 Views


Are you seeing somebody else?

I'm seeing everybody else!

I've met mosquitoes

with more force than you.

I'm tired of your little games,

tired of being your little secretary.

Here's the light bill. I didn't pay it.

Here's the cable bill. I didn't pay that, either.

And here's the bill for your car note.

I hope they take it!

Wait a minute, that's my car!

Wait, come back!

I hate that piece of sh*t!

I'm tired of spending my time

waiting for you to quit acting like a child...

and act like a grown man

for a change, Mays!

I need to get on with my life!

I want a house, I want children!

I want to go on vacation!

You're horrible in bed!

I am tired of being engaged.

I am tired of being-

I wish you would.

For the last time,

I'm not running for President.

I'm not crazy! Gaines was 20 points behind.

It's ten weeks to Election Day.

Damn it!

They should have known better

than to talk on a cell phone in a plane.

- What about Sanderson?

- That's a joke.

Lewis has been Vice-President

for eight years.

He's a war hero and Sharon Stone's cousin.

He can't lose.

- What about Mosley?

- Girls.

- Connelly?

- Boys.

- McMasters?

- Big boys.

So we concede the election to Lewis?

Nobody is talking about conceding,

Debra, but let's get real here.

We'll lose this one.

The thing to do is to set the party up

for the next election.

We need a candidate

that will put on a good show.

This isn't a circus,

it's a presidential election.

You can't just pick some guy...

to run for President.

It's unprecedented,

but if I put in a call to the party chairman...

we find a candidate, he'll back him.

Who will run a race

they know they can't win?

Who says he has to know?

What the...

What now?

No, not my bike!

When I went in there

I wasn't thinking about being a hero.

I was just trying to help Miss Pearl.

Miss Pearl.

I think we found our man.

Look at this! This is great!

This is America, see?

Little guy against the big guy,

corporations against the people.

Young versus old. What's better than this?

Give me a break!

I am going to run an alderman

for President?

He's not an alderman.

He's a hero.

- Who doesn't like a hero?

- Big business loves a hero!

See?

You said we needed somebody

who can help the party.

Now, how in the hell

does this guy help the party?

I'm glad you asked.

The United States is changing.

America is changing.

Inside of 20 years, you know the numbers...

20 percent black,

21 percent Asian, 39 percent Hispanic.

The minorities will be the majority.

The smartest thing we can do...

is be the first party

to nominate a minority for President.

- How about a cripple?

- I don't think so, Charlie.

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Chris Rock

Christopher Julius Rock is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer and director. After working as a stand-up comedian and appearing in supporting film roles, Rock came to wider prominence as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s. more…

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