Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) on Netflix
In 2002, an American consulting firm sends strategist Jane Bodine to Bolivia to run Pedro Castillo's fledgling presidential campaign. Her rival, Pat Candy, works for the opposition.
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Plot summary
Pedro Castillo, a former president of Bolivia, hires an American consulting firm to help him win the presidency in 2002. The firm sends in Jane Bodine, a longtime American political consultant, to run his campaign. Working for the opposition is Pat Candy, a strategist she has clashed with before. The country is tense: indigenous Bolivians are a majority but hold little political power, and they are protesting for constitutional reform and fair representation. The visiting team knows neither the language nor the customs. Bodine pushes for smear campaigning to hide the candidate's weaknesses, and Castillo refuses to allow attacks on his opponents.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
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- The campaign at the center of the film really happened: candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada hired James Carville's Washington, D.C.-based political consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum to run his side of the 2002 Bolivian presidential election.
