Swing Vote (2008) on Netflix
In Texico, New Mexico, Bud Johnson's uncounted ballot will decide the presidential election. His daughter Molly, who cast it in his place, wants him to take the choice seriously.
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Plot summary
Molly Johnson studies federal politics in her Texico, New Mexico classroom while her father, Bud, drinks through the days and loses one job after another. She registers him as an Independent and he promises to vote, but he spends election day at a bar instead. Molly slips into the booth with his ballot, and when the machine jams the vote is never counted. With the race between Republican President Andrew Boone and Democrat Donald Greenleaf tied, New Mexico's result decides the White House, and Bud has ten days to cast his ballot again. Reporter Kate Madison spreads the story, and both campaigns set out to learn what Bud wants, while Molly presses him to decide for himself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Swing Vote (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Bradley Blakeman, a former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, sued in August 2008 over a copyrighted screenplay called Go November that he said he had given Kelsey Grammer in 2006, claiming Swing Vote's plot and marketing were stolen from him. The case was eventually settled for $10 after the judge dismissed his other claims against Costner and Disney.
- Although the film was not intended as a political statement on the then-upcoming presidential elections, when Kevin Costner found he could not get the financing he wanted to get Swing Vote into theaters in time for the 2008 presidential election, he bankrolled it himself.
- After the film's release Dennis Hopper said his role had been significantly reduced, telling the New York Daily News that a scene where his character ditched all his events to support a young waitress at her grandfather's funeral was chopped, although it was important to the character's development.
