Swing Vote (2008 film)

Swing Vote is a 2008 comedydrama film about an entire U.S. presidential election determined by the vote of one man. It was directed by Joshua Michael Stern and starred Kevin Costner, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez, and Madeline Carroll. The film was released on August 1, 2008.

Buds actual opinions or lack thereof are misinterpreted by the media, causing the candidates to flipflop on several positions the Democrats take a prolife and antiillegal immigration stand, while the Republicans take a proenvironmental and progay marriage stand. As the film progresses, however, the two candidates are shown to move away from the cynical tactics forced on them by their advisers, and both gain Buds respect. In the end, he chooses to hold a final debate the day before he is set to recast his ballot. In a written speech, he confesses that he knows little to nothing about politics, or for that matter, life, and decides to ask questions people have sent to him in the mail. The movie ends with Bud casting his vote, though for whom he voted is never revealed.Swing Vote was shot primarily in Albuquerque and Belen, New Mexico. Although not intended as a political statement on the upcoming presidential elections, when Kevin Costner found he could not get the financing he wanted for Swing Vote to get it into theaters in time for the 2008 presidential election, he bankrolled it himself. ........

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