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The better half and I were sitting on the couch Saturday night after those teenage Frankenstein’s of ours sacked out and we had finished with our family and financial responsibilities for the day. We were trying to decide what to do in the way of entertaining ourselves, and while we have many options at our disposal we decided to find a movie to watch. The movie we settled on was “Swing Vote” with Kevin Costner.

“Swing Vote” is not a new release and has been out for about 10 months. The film stars Kevin Costner and has a whole host of great actors in supporting roles. Kelsey Grammer plays Republican President Andrew Boone and Dennis Hopper plays Democratic Presidential nominee Donald Greenleaf. Stanley Tucci and Nathan Lane play their respective Chief of Staffs.

This story is set in a little New Mexico town called Texico. Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner) appears to be the town slacker who doesn’t seem to care about anything but drinking beer and fishing. Bud’s daughter Molly who is played by Madeline Carroll is about the only one who cares about him and takes care of them both. Molly Johnson is also very serious about hers and his obligations including Bud’s right to vote, which he appears to avoid at any cost. His friend Walter (Judge Reinhold even thinks he is a joke.

On voting day in Texico Bud not only loses his job, but gets drunk and passes out in his truck, and forgets to meet his daughter at the polling station like he promised. At that point Molly takes it upon herself to vote in his place but runs into some technical difficulty LOL. What follows is a very comical series of events and errors in poor Bud and Molly’s life. These two even have the candidates changing platforms to stand on issues that their parties would not usually support.

They both meet the President and his challenger. They also get to meet the NASCAR King Richard Petty and Willy Nelson speaks to Bud on TV. Unfortunately Bud is not taking any of this very seriously. Meanwhile Molly is doing all of the talking and thinking for her dad, and is becoming more unhappy by the day as they lead up to Bud’s day to vote for the next President, because his vote decides who wins.

Throw into the mix a selfish TV station manger played by George Lopez who dreams of getting back to a major market and his favorite female reporter who originally breaks the story Kate Madison (Paula Patton) who almost gives up her professional ethics to keep control of the story and almost jeopardizes Bud’s chance to vote and it gets hairy for Bud, because Molly finds out and runs away to her mother. Luckily Bud gets her back in time to host a televised debate of the two candidates.

The great thing about this flick besides an awesome cast of actors is the fact that both conservatives and liberals are featured in the film. Another thing is the fact that they all played very well together and in the end and at the end the film remained independent of Hollywood partisan politics. I think that this is a great film and is family friendly also I hope you all enjoy it.

That’s it for Simple Man Entertainment today, but we will se you again soon. Have a good day and CIAO4NOW!!!!!