Written By- Danny Strong
Starring- Jullianne Moore, Ed Harris, Woody Harrelson, Sarah Paulson, Peter MacNicol, Jamey Sheridan, Ron Livingston
Run Time- 1 hr. 58 min.
Critics Review- "It takes a story whose outline we know and uses backstage access to turn it into a well-paced drama"- David Hinckley "New York Daily News"
Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 63% Audience- No Percentage
Out of a possible 5 stars- 3 1/2 stars
My Review-
Even though I do not know a lot about Sarah Palin, only from what I saw on TV during that election time, this movie was really well done acting wise. All the right actors were chosen for this movie and it was well done, by everyone; Harrelson, Harris and especially Moore. I chose this movie since it was election day, and also I heard because it was supposed to be very good and controversial in a way and I could see why. whether this movie was fact or fiction in either way it was still really well made for an HBO film and really well acted and written. I loved the use of the SNL skits on Palin and how Moore portrayed Palin by only seeing archive video and possibly through what she saw when she was running. At times I was getting annoyed by Moore's voice of Palin but I believe it was spot on and quite good. The one actor I really really liked was Harrelson, he owned that movie and his role and I thought he should have gotten an award or something and if the awards for these have not come out yet, he needs one. In a way after watching this movie and Recount a while back I got a little more of an understanding of how politics works behind the scenes and it seems like hard work and lots of determination. I was watching the election results most of the time so this why this post is going up so late but, it seems like HBO always seems to get their movies like this right and seem to be the best cable channel to come out with these types of movies because they know what they are doing and almost always get it right.
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