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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


Now, we'll lose, of course,

but the minorities will be happy.

The minorities will be happy

and they will vote for us in 2008...

because we've shown we support them.

And the white people will vote for us...

- because our guy isn't black.

- You got my vote!

Geller, see if you can track down

this Mays Gilliam.

Go check our accounts.

Give me one good reason

why I should go along with this.

Don't you get it, Debra?

I intend to run for President in 2008.

Now give me one reason why you shouldn't.

He would take a lot of work.

We can run a background check...

but it's obvious

he's not a party line candidate.

He's just some kid

who thinks he can make a difference.

Don't worry. Go out there,

put the machine behind him.

You get 25 points in the polls,

consider it a win.

Make sure he doesn't embarrass us.

After this is over, we get to work.

When I'm President, I'll take care of you.

Help me. They locked me out of my office.

I know. The mayor is fed up with you.

How many times have I told you?

You got to quit trying to fix sh*t.

I could've got you into the council

next term. Now you're red-lined.

Shannon is taking over your district.

They need to smooth over the mall

situation, that bus thing is heating up.

- They don't trust you.

- I'm not the one stealing people's houses.

That's what your problem is.

You got to work with us.

That sh*t you pulled over there

cost the city money.

Makes the mayor look bad.

Now, contrary to popular belief,

politics is no place to express yourself.

You want to get in, you got to fit in.

And look at you.

Grow up, you got to dress better.

Even Puff Daddy wears a suit to court.

I'm sorry, brother, but ain't nothing I can do.

- Nice car.

- Ain't it, though?

Got it for a song at a repo auction.

He feels bad, mighty low

Got nowhere to go

What can you do when you're feeling low

Man, I want to know

He feels bad, mighty low

Got nowhere to go

What can you do when you're feeling low

And your car just got repo'd

Here we are.

Mays Gilliam, Debra Lassiter.

Nice to meet you. Take a seat.

We know what happened today.

We know you lost your job.

How do you know that? It just happened.

We're the government. We know everything.

We'd like you to do something for us.

Sure, I'd love to work

on a presidential campaign.

I'll make phone calls, send out fliers.

Who have you guys chosen

to run against Lewis?

That's exactly what we wanted

to talk to you about.

We'd like you to run for President.

- Of what?

- The United States.

- Of what?

- Of America.

Which America?

North...

America, Mays.

Get out of here!

We're not joking.

We want you to be the nominee

for the office of President...

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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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