Game Change (2012)

★ 6.9 1h 58m 342 votes IMDb
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During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.

Game Change

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Cast

Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin Age 65 · Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress and children's author. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled w...
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson as Steve Schmidt Age 64 · Midland, Texas, USA Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime...
Ed Harris
Ed Harris as John McCain Age 75 · Englewood, New Jersey, USA Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000), and The Hours (2002) earned him critical...
Peter MacNicol
Peter MacNicol as Rick Davis Age 72 · Dallas, Texas, USA Peter MacNicol is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart. His film roles include Galen in Dragonslayer (1981), Stingo in Sophi...
Jamey Sheridan
Jamey Sheridan as Mark Salter Age 74 · Pasadena, California, U.S. Jamey Sheridan (born July 12, 1951) is an American actor. He has had a prolific acting career in theater, television, and feature film productions. He earned a Tony nomination in 1987 for his perform...
Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson as Nicolle Wallace Age 51 · Tampa, Florida, USA Sarah Catharine Paulson (born December 17, 1974) is an American actress. She began her acting career in New York City stage productions before starring in the short-lived television series American Go...

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GenerationofSwine 7/10 Jan 12, 2023
You couldn't make this today could you? I mean, the Repubicans aren't all depicted as idiotic, mouth breathing, Nazi monsters from Mars... so it wouldn't be PC enough and people would call it offensive. Because, how dare you not stereotype.

Anyway, Palin was a mistake, but the movie puts all the blame on her. That wasn't really the case was it? We were just coming off the W presidency, if Obama won the primary, the Democrats would have won the election. If Hillary won the primary, the Democrats would have won the election. If a reanimated corpse won the primary, the Democrats would have won the election.

People were so fed up with 8 years of W, that the DNC could have run a serial killer that cooked and ate a Jewish baby on live television and they still would have beaten McCain.

McCain's problem wasn't Palin. McCain's problem was W, and he was in the same party as W and Americans just wanted a change after that mess.

So it's kind of unfairly blaming Palin... but Palin was a mistake. She was not ready for the big game. She was poor choice.

But, it was a fair depiction of why she was a poor choice. It was a well acted and fair depiction of why she was a bad choice. It was a well acted and well directed and fair depiction of why she was a bad choice.

But in the end, it wasn't her fault. W guaranteed that there was going to be no beating Obama.

But as far as political movies go, it's fair and well done... despite the miscast blame.

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