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‘Stop the Recount’: How the Chaotic End of the 2000 Presidential Election Sowed Seeds of Today’s Political Fury
'Recount' director Jay Roach, docu filmmaker R.J. Cutler reflect on the chaos after the 2000 presidential vote that sowed the seeds of political fury.
Director Jay Roach and writer Danny Strong captured the stakes and the personalities that drove that strange moment in “ Recount,” the Emmy-winning 2008 HBO movie starring Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban and Laura Dern. Bewildered voters who went to bed that night thinking Bush had won decisively were shocked to see the bleary-eyed faces of Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Bernard Shaw the next day acknowledging that the early exit polling data had been misleading. “If you want to explore the roots of our political moment now, [the 2000 election] has endless riches to mine,” says R.J. Cutler, the veteran filmmaker who was behind the landmark documentary feature on Bill Clinton’s quixotic 1992 presidential campaign, “The War Room.”
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