Grassroots

Name: Grassroots
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: July 13, 2012
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Cobie Smulders, Jason Biggs, Joel Moore, Lauren Ambrose

2012

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Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: July 13, 2012 | R

Starring: Cobie Smulders, Jason Biggs, Joel Moore, Lauren Ambrose

Summary: It's 2001 -- before Twitter, before the flash mob, before Obama, and Cogswell decides he must do the impossible: run against an incumbent city council member who's already raised a huge campaign war chest and sewn up all the city's biggest political endorsements. Grant dreams of an elegant monorail gliding silently above the city's wetIt's 2001 -- before Twitter, before the flash mob, before Obama, and Cogswell decides he must do the impossible: run against an incumbent city council member who's already raised a huge campaign war chest and sewn up all the city's biggest political endorsements. Grant dreams of an elegant monorail gliding silently above the city's wet streets, and he is apoplectic with rage that McIver's alternate mass transit proposal is a costly idea that would destroy the city's lower class neighborhoods. Grant has a snowball's chance in hell of winning his campaign until he lures recently fired alternative-weekly reporter Phil Campbell to run his campaign. Phil may be a campaign neophyte, but he has the tact that Grant lacks, and frankly he can't think of anything better to do with his time. Things start to look really bad until Grant attracts an army of wild-eyed young volunteers to back his unlikely crusade, and the impossible begins to happen. It's politics. But not as usual. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)… Expand

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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Stephen Holden

Jul 12, 2012

Although it only glosses the mechanics of local politics, it exudes an endearingly scruffy charm. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Jul 10, 2012

Perhaps the most curious omission from the movie Grassroots is that there's no mention at all of the classic "Simpsons" episode "Marge vs. the Monorail." Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Jul 20, 2012

Grassroots is a movie where bad ideas, because they're the ones championed by the "correct" side, are king. It never acknowledges that sometimes idealism is just another kind of manipulation. Read full review

John DeFore

Jul 10, 2012

A campaign movie for viewers who, if they care about politics at all, certainly don't require the full Sorkin treatment. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Jul 10, 2012

Factor in a questionable use of 9/11 footage, and this is one film as misguided as the business-as-usual subject it aims to critique. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jul 10, 2012

By ultimately softening its stance toward McIver, Grassroots disingenuously has it both ways, reducing politics first to a David-versus-Goliath adventure, and then to an everyone-is-cool bowl of mush. Read full review

Chris Cabin

Jul 9, 2012

It isn't entirely clear what Stephen Gyllenhaal sees in the material apart from some lukewarm raging against the machine. Read full review

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