Grassroots Page #3

Synopsis: After losing his job, a journalist reluctantly agrees to help his oddball friend with his bid to earn a seat on the Seattle City Council.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Stephen Gyllenhaal
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Films
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
41
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
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Year:
2012
98 min
$6,497
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57 Views


Don't make me

get out there!

Look at what we've done

to each other!

Get out of here, jerk!

Doesn't this awful traffic

bug you into action? Huh?

[ Woman screams ]

Would you like to support

my campaign

for stalled mass transit?

Doesn't this suck?

Get out of here,

you lunatic!

Grant!

The monorail, your monorail.

We can have it

across the city

in five years, if even that.

And it'll pay for itself

in less than

a Seattle heartbeat.

And yet McIver

wants a debacle

that'll cost a fortune.

Why does he want this?

For the greenbacks,

my fine feathered friends,

to plump

his already pot-belly,

money-hungry

construction pimps

that fill up

his campaign coffer!

They call it light rail.

What does that even mean,

light rail?

My butt hole!

It's crazy lies,

lies on top of lies.

So he'll continue

to rape this city,

but I love this place.

I love it.

I love it so much

that I've carved

its seal onto my arm.

So give me your endorsement.

Rise above it all!

We can't offer you

our endorsement.

But nobody cares about your

monorail more than I do.

In fact, I'm the

only one who showed up

to this little function

thing of yours today.

That's got to mean

something.

Which is why we can't risk

what little influence we have

on fringe politics.

Fringe politics.

You mean, politics

that don't compromise?

That speak the truth,

which is the only way

to beat them, Clair.

Not by playing into their

conniving little fingers

like lambs

to the slaughter.

Please help us.

We can do...

I can do this!

Otherwise, you guys are just

another f***ing social club

on a list

sucking each other off!

All right, all right.

Listen, can I just...

can we just use

your name in public?

[ Laughs ]

Absolutely not.

God! Mmm!

What a f***ing

b*tch!

You know, grant,

you talk a lot of sh*t.

What we need to do

is embrace our position.

We're the little guys.

People like the little guys.

It's more satisfying

when they win.

Then why do incumbents

always get re-elected?

Because they stack

the cards in their favor!

No, they rig

the f***ing system, man!

They choose how much money

you can spend,

what the jurisdictions are.

They even got those little

voter pamphlets rigged.

What are you

talking about?

The voter pamphlets,

you know, the things that

they send out in the election,

you know, or polls and sh*t.

They even got the little

government stamp on it

and everything.

Only in Seattle,

you can't say anything

about the incumbent in it.

You can't even mention

the incumbent's name.

It's the law.

It's a joke.

You sure about this?

That's why I verbalized it.

We're being gagged here, man.

You know, when

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Stephen Gyllenhaal

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (; born October 4, 1949) is an American film director and poet. He is the father of actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal. more…

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