Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the orchestrated conventions. Hoffman shows an obvious distaste for money politics and the conservative right. He looks seedier and more disillusioned the campaign progresses. Eventually Hoffman seems most energized by the Ralph Nader campaign as an alternative to the nearly indistinguishable major parties. The high point of the film are the comments by Barney Frank who says that marches and demonstrations are largely a waste of time, and that the really effective political players such as the NRA and the AARP never bother with walk ins, sit-ins, shoot-ins or shuffles. In the interview with Jesse Jackson, Hoffman is too flustered to ask all of his questions.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman as Self
Tim Robbins as Self
Susan Sarandon as Self
Michael Moore as Self
Rosie O'Donnell as Self
Jesse Jackson as Self
Courtney Love as Self
Ralph Nader as Self
Ben Harper as Self
Noam Chomsky as Self
Harold Ford, Jr. as Self
John Sellers as Self
Christopher Shays as Self
Bill Maher as Self
Melissa Etheridge as Self
Antonia Novello as Self
Rudolph Giuliani as Self
Ralph E. Reed, Jr. as Self
Cheri Honkala as Self
Pat Robertson as Self
Patricia Ireland as Self
Newt Gingrich as Self
Jim Reese as Self
Barney Frank as Self
Tim Hutchinson as Self
Jeff Johnston as Self
Ed Robertson as Self
Willie Nelson as Self
Arlo Guthrie as Self
Julia Butterfly Hill as Self
Bonnie Raitt as Self
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman as Self
Ben Cohen as Self
Gary Johnson as Self
Scott Weiland as Self
Adora Obi Nweze as Self
Robert Muhammad as Self
Steve Earle as Self
Greg Gladden as Self
Bianca Jagger as Self
John Kerry as Self
Campbell Brown as Self
Eddie Vedder as Self
Mark Fritz as Self
Rabbi Goldstein as Self
Rosalyn Brodsky as Self
Reed Anthony as Self
William Baldwin as Self
Robert Downey Jr. as Self
Al Gore as Self
Charlton Heston as Self
Jesse Jackson Jr. as Self
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