I hope for those of you who came to December’s movie night, that you had fun. Now it is time for January’s movie night on 20 of January, 2009. With a new President being elected it is time to laugh at our political process. This month’s theme will be political comedies. Some are dark and some are dumb, so please vote for your favorite one! (I should of been a poet!) So vote below and then join us for something that makes the US great, food, fun, drinks, and a political process that peacefully exchanges power.

To make Wife happy, I have postponed Car Chase month. To be seen later this year.

Dave:

Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) looks so much like President Bill Mitchell that he’s asked to stand in for him after the chief executive suffers an unexpected stroke. Stuck in the White House till Mitchell’s staff (led by an unctuous Frank Langella) can decide what to do, Dave gets into the part, passing legislation and even developing a crush on Mitchell’s estranged First Lady (Sigourney Weaver). Ivan Reitman directed this charming political comedy.

Primary Colors:

When Newsweek reporter Joe Klein was unmasked as the anonymous author ofPrimary Colors – a thinly veiled take on Bill Clinton’s campaign for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination — heads (and pages) turned. With a sterling cast (John Travolta, Emma Thompson and Kathy Bates) and a brilliant screenplay, director Mike Nichols transforms Klein’s roman à clef into a wry look at modern politics.

Wag the Dog:

When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than two weeks before the election, White House spinmaster Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) creates a phony war with the help of Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman). From acclaimed director Barry Levinson and writers Hilary Henkin and David Mamet comes this biting look at American politics and its relationship with the media that we have all come to embrace.

My Fellow Americans:

Jack Lemmon and James Garner star as ex-presidents and former political foes who unite in the face of adversity. They’re forced to overcome their partisan bickering when the current president (Dan Aykroyd) tries to frame and kill them to conceal his crimes. To clear their names, they go on a different type of whistle-stop tour, taking it on the lam among the “common people.”

Dr. Strangelove:

In director Stanley Kubrick’s blackly comedic send-up of the nuclear age, deranged American general Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) leads an attack against the Russians that sets the stage for Armageddon. In a series of virtuoso comic performances, Peter Sellers plays an impotent U.S. president, a harried British captain and an ex-Nazi bomb maker. George C. Scott and Slim Pickens also appear in this classic Oscar-nominated satire.

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