2008 · drama · history · tv-movie
Recount
Directed by Jay Roach1h 56m2008
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.
Our read: Recount (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · history · tv-movie entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
- twisty
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How Recount feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a sharp HBO civics lesson on Florida 2000 and legal knife fights.”
Skip it tonight — Election recount talk already exhausts you after a long day.
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