Dave (1993) on Netflix
Dave Kovic runs a temp agency in Georgetown and earns money impersonating President Bill Mitchell, his exact double. When Mitchell suffers a stroke, Dave is asked to stay on as the President.
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Plot summary
Dave Kovic owns a temporary employment agency in Georgetown, and on the side he works as a look-alike of President Bill Mitchell. A Secret Service agent, Duane Stevenson, asks him to stand in for Mitchell at a public appearance. Mitchell then suffers a major stroke, and Chief of Staff Bob Alexander and Communications Director Alan Reed decide to keep it quiet, telling reporters the stroke was minor and asking Dave to carry on in the role. Vice President Gary Nance is dispatched on a goodwill tour of Africa. Dave's energy lifts Mitchell's popularity, while First Lady Ellen Mitchell, long estranged from her husband, treats Dave with contempt.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dave (1993)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Senators Al D'Amato, Lloyd Bentsen and Daniel Patrick Moynihan dropped planned cameos in protest of Warner Records releasing Body Count's song "Cop Killer", and NBC separately prohibited Andrea Mitchell from appearing.
- Sitting President Bill Clinton personally enjoyed the film and sent the screenwriter a framed, autographed script praising it as an accurate lampoon of politics.
- The Oval Office set built for the film, modeled on a replica at the Reagan Presidential Library, proved so useful it was reused more than 25 times in later films and television shows.
- Warner Bros. wanted a box office star for the lead; one executive suggested Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Keaton was briefly cast but dropped out, and Warren Beatty and Kevin Costner were considered.
- Unlike on some other productions, the real Secret Service refused to cooperate with the filmmakers, reportedly dismissing the movie's premise as merely whimsical.
