Today’s movie is political drama with a scene that happens on December
12. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
RECOUNT
On election day 2000 trouble
appears early in Florida regarding ballot difficulties. The television networks
flip-flop on calling Florida for Gore, then Bush. Gore telephones a concession
to Bush. His staff has to race to stop Gore from publicly conceding because the
election is so close a machine recount is mandatory and Gore withdraws his
concession. Gore makes a mistake in asking the milquetoast Warren Christopher
to lead the fight in Florida. We get a lecture about what a chad is. Bush’s
team refuses to negotiate. A hand recount is started in Palm Beach County. Ron
Klain takes over the Gore team. A state judge rules a hand recount not needed,
but the Florida Supreme Court reverses this.
Clear evidence emerges that the Republicans excluded people from voting
as felons when they in fact were not felons and the Repblicans knew they were
not felons. Katherine Harris, the Florida Secretary of State and co-chair of
Bush’s Florida campaign certifies the election result for Bush. The lawsuit
seeking to stop her and get a hand recount loses in circuit court, but again
the Florida Supreme Court reverses and orders a hand recount. Bush appeals to
the US supreme Court which orders a stop to the hand recount. After a hearing, the
US Supreme court, on December 12, 2000 [1:37:42 to 1:43:23] in an
intellectually dishonest opinion rules that even though they stopped the
recount, since it could not be completed by the deadline for the electoral
college to meet it cannot continue. Gore gives up.
A movie about a very sad period
in American history. The United States Supreme Court revealed it was willing to
cast aside it’s long tradition of impartiality to reach a intellectually
dishonest decision to promote a partisan positon. Gore should have fought on.
The Perfect Tie by James
Caesar and Andrew E. Busch (Bowman and Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, Md.,
2001) at page 198 give the date of the decision
Producers - Michael Hausman,
Danny Strong, Len Amato, Jay Roach, Sydney Pollack and Paula Weinstein
Director - Jay Roach
Screenplay - Danny Strong
Awards – The movie won the
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special,
Outstanding Made for Television Movie and the Outstanding Single-Camera Picture
Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie Emmys. It was also nominated for the
Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Casting for a
Miniseries, Movie or a Special, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a
Movie (Spacey), Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Wilkinson),
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Balaban), Outstanding
Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Leary), Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Dern) and the Outstanding Writing for a
Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special Emmys at the 60th Primetime
Emmy Awards
Runtime – 1 hour 56 minutes
Released – May 5, 2008
Starring –
Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain
John Hurt as Warren Christopher
Laura Dern as Katherine Harris
Tom Wilkinson as James Baker
Denis Leary as Michael Whouley
Ed Begley, Jr. as David Boies
Bob Balaban as Benjamin Ginsberg
Bruce McGill as Mac Stipanovich
Paul Jeanes as Ted Olson
Bruce Altman as Mitchell Berger
Alex Staggs as Craig Waters
Doug Williford as Mark Fabiani
Gary Basaraba as Clay Roberts
Stefen Laurantz as Joe Allbaugh
Mitch Pileggi as Bill Daley
Jayne Atkinson as Theresa LePore
Marcia Jean Kurtz as Carol
Roberts
Mary Bonner Baker as Kerey
Carpenter
Bob Kranz as Bob Butterworth
Raymond Forchion as Jeff Robinson
Steve DuMouchel as John Hardin
Young
Marc Macaulay as Robert Zoellick
Antoni Corone as Tom Feeney
Matt Miller as Jeb Bush
Terry Loughlin as William
Rehnquist
Judy Clayton as Sandra Day
O'Connor
William Schallert as John Paul
Stevens
Bruce Gray as Anthony Kennedy
Michael Bryan French as David
Souter
Howard Elfman as Stephen Breyer
Jack Shearer as Antonin Scalia
Benjamin Clayton as Clarence
Thomas
Candice Critchfield as Judge
Myriam Lehr
Robert Small as George J.
Terwilliger III
Patricia Getty as Margaret D.
Tutwiler
James Carrey as Chris Lehane
Brent Mendenhall as George W.
Bush
Grady Couch as Al Gore
Carole Wood as Tipper Gore
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