Swing Vote Page #2

Synopsis: November, 2004, New Mexico. Bud is a slacker with one good thing in his life, his engaging fifth-grade daughter Molly. On election day, Bud is supposed to meet her at the polling place. When he doesn't show, she sneaks a ballot and is about to vote when the power goes off. It turns out that New Mexico's electoral votes will decide the contest, and there it's tied with one vote needing recasting - Bud's. The world's media and both presidential candidates, including the current President, descend on Bud in anticipation of his re-vote in two weeks. Can the clueless Bud, even with the help of Molly and a local TV reporter, handle this responsibility?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Production: Touchstone Pictures/Treehouse Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
39%
PG-13
Year:
2008
120 min
$16,229,781
Website
500 Views


has vacationed

at a nudist colony.

Come on, now, that's a tired

accusation. It's pure fiction.

- Then, how do you answer for the photos?

- Right wing blogo-smear, that's how.

I could stand here and perpetuate

the rumor that as a young man...

the president had a gambling addiction,

but I'm got going to sink to their level.

Despite eye witness

accounts and documentation.

They sling mud,

we sling ideas.

Still, if Greenleaf loses,

you'll be 0 for 7 on the national scene.

Thank you, Betty. Sorry, folks,

that's all I have time for.

Leeches!

Why it's important to vote.

Many brave soldiers

sacrificed themselves.

A right we take for granted.

- For the people.

- By the people.

We the people!

I can't read my writing.

All the world's great civilizations

have followed the same path.

From bondage, to liberty,

from liberty to abundance...

from abundance to complacency.

From complacency to apathy...

from apathy back to bondage.

If we're to be the exception to history,

then we must break the cycle.

For those who do not remember

the past are condemned to repeat it.

Very good, everybody.

Very good.

Hold this.

Okay, remember, no running

till you get out to the playground.

Your last one was great.

I'd like to use it on the news.

- Molly?

- Yes.

Molly, come here.

This is Ms. Madison.

She's the reporter from the news.

- Hi, Molly.

- Hi.

- How you doing?

- Good.

Your essay was very thoughtful.

Thanks.

Ms. Madison is going

to show your essay tonight.

- Isn't that exciting?

- Yes, madam.

Tell me something. What do you

want to be when you grow up?

I go back and forth. Either

a veterinarian or chairman of the Fed.

Where's Bud?

Went to take a leak half an hour ago.

I heard his name over the loudspeaker.

What'd you have for lunch?

- Egg salad. You?

- Hard boiled.

Hey, Bud.

Just giving you a heads up.

Management wants us

to cut another ten percent.

Well,

you are management, Carl.

Look, you haven't punched

in on time in six months.

So, I'm five minutes late every once

in a while. What is the big whoop?

You took thirty-one

sick days this year, Bud.

Well, I gotta kid, Carl.

She brings it home from school.

Sh*t! Goddamnit!

Well, hell, Carl!

You could have showed me

your footage when you walked in.

I know we went to school together, Bud.

I've always liked you.

You gotta give me one good

reason why I should keep you.

Why I can keep you.

All hellsabelle!

Sorry you lost your job.

That's alright, Henry. Just...

As soon as take your money,

I'm going from fired to retired.

- Hey, Bud!

- Yes?

Molly is on TV!

- Apathy back to bondage.

- Geez!

If we are to be the exception to history,

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