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Swing Vote
Cert: 12A
Description: While the rest of his countrymen and -women go to the polls, factory worker Bud Johnson seeks out his favourite bar stool. In despair, his precocious 12-year-old daughter Molly secretly votes in his place only for the electronic ballot to be spoilt by a technical glitch. His verdict, it transpires, will break the political deadlock between Republican incumbent, President Andrew Boone, and charismatic Democratic challenger Donald Greenleaf. A media circus decamps outside Bud's trailer front door in the dustbowl town of Texico, New Mexico, as the rival campaigns beg for Bud's vote.
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Dir: Joshua Michael Stern.
Cast: Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci
Country: US.
Year: 2008.
Duration: 120mins
