Word: ende
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...most movies do. It tends to lurch along like--oh, say, a disputed election in Florida. Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor this accurate reconstruction of those anguished days, we know everything came out all right in the end. But seen through the eyes of presidential aide Kenny O'Donnell (Costner), it is still a suspenseful tale. Well acted too, especially by Costner, and Greenwood as John F. Kennedy. The players don't particularly look like their historical models, but they make us feel their life-threatening pain and puzzlement...
...simpler election, Bush would have been a strong contender. He remade and united the Republican Party and defeated a talented Vice President who had the wind at his back after eight years of wallet-popping prosperity. Bush's amiable demeanor tapped into a desire to end years of meaningless partisan rancor. Yet he was also controversial: he became the first President-elect to lose the popular vote since 1888, partly due to skepticism about one half or the other of his "compassionate conservative" duality and partly due to doubts among some that he had enough experience or heft...
When we first approached Bush after his certification following the initial recounts, he was willing to cooperate partly because he felt that appearing as TIME's Person of the Year on the very day that the Electoral College voted could help certify the end of the postelection conflict. He invited us to Austin, Texas, for a photo session, a two-hour interview the next day, and then a visit to his isolated ranch on the Saturday when the Supreme Court happened to stay the Florida recount...
...dramatic to the brashly comic and all but one of its songs scrapped. There were other ominous signs: Disney didn't blanket the TV air with commercials; and Spade, in a recent visit with Jay Leno, was loath to mention his new movie. All of which meant, in the end, nothing; the film is a funny, breezy romp...
Family Man is a film that's fun to argue with. But at the end you may surrender to its Wonderful Life portrait of middle-class coping, and to Cage's poignant anguish. His features crumble, his shoulders sink under the burden of a strong man's perplexity...