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MOVIE2015 1h 48m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Castillo (a fictionalized version of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada) hires an American political consulting firm (based on James Carville's Greenberg Carville Shrum firm) to help him win the Bolivian presidential election, 2002. The firm brings in Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) to manage the campaign in Bolivia. The opposition's political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton). In Bolivia the situation is tense: the indigenous people, who are a majority in the country, are protesting for a constitutional reform, to get proper representation.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sandra Bullock
'Calamity' Jane Bodine
Zoe Kazan
LeBlanc
Ann Dowd
Nell
Carmela Zumbado
Erick Chavarria
Devil Mask Man
Dan Hewitt Owens
American IMF Man #1
Anthony Mackie
Ben
Billy Bob Thornton
Pat Candy