Name: Game Change
Released: 2012
Duration: 118 min

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During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.

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MellowB

It'#39;s quite sobering to watch this on the eve of the 2016 election... they thought they had one of the most vicious and dirty campaigns in 2008 and look how far we'#39;ve come. All the parallels between this, Palin and Trump this year... kinda amazing. Oh America, you'#39;ll never learn.

Themanski90

This is a smidge too preachy and very much looks like a made for television movie, but it has a loaded cast with convincing performances telling a fascinating (and terrifying) story that was a brightly colored domino in a series of historical events that led to the existential crisis our society faces today.

CatyAlexandre

In 2008 John McCain was the candidate that was running against Barack Obama for the elections to the president of The United States. The strategist Steve Schmidt suggested what is called a game changer, a person who would form a new strategy a person who would change the way things were done and that person was Sarah Palin, the woman that could have been the vice president of the US. People just loved her, she was more popular than Obama, after all she was a mother of 5 children and she was an ordinary woman that did ordinary things and I guess that was the main idea to be shown to the people in US, a member of the government that was a normal people like everybody else. But she quickly started to get some troubles mostly because of the media. I had heard some things about her before and the pregnancy of her teenage daugther was news basicly around the world. I saw her too once on an interview after the campaign but I didn'#39;t realized the major problem. John McCain picked for Vice President of a nation a woman that didn'#39;t even knew who had made the terrorist attacks in 9/11, she did not know basic things about world history, she didn'#39;t knew anything about economy and so on. That'#39;s a little bit shocking! It'#39;s sad to have knowledge that politicians do this kinds of things just with political purposes and they just don'#39;t care about the people, it'#39;s just wrong and misleading democracy. And this is a problem around the world not just in the US. In the end you kind of feel sorry for Palin. The cast is great with especial attention too Woody Harrelson and Julianne Moore. She is amazing as Sarah Palin she is really looks like her and speaks like her, great job! Overall it'#39;s a good film, very interesting to watch.

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GenerationofSwine

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You couldn't make this today could you? I mean, the Repubicans aren't all depicted as idiotic, mouth breathing, Nazi monsters from Mars... so it wouldn't be PC enough and people would call it offensive. Because, how dare you not stereotype. Anyway, Palin was a mistake, but the movie puts all the blame on her. That wasn't really the case was it? We were just coming off the W presidency, if Obama won the primary, the Democrats would have won the election. If Hillary won the primary, the Democrats would have won the election. If a reanimated corpse won the primary, the Democrats would have won the election. People were so fed up with 8 years of W, that the DNC could have run a serial killer that cooked and ate a Jewish baby on live television and they still would have beaten McCain. McCain's problem wasn't Palin. McCain's problem was W, and he was in the same party as W and Americans just wanted a change after that mess. So it's kind of unfairly blaming Palin... but Palin was a mistake. She was not ready for the big game. She was poor choice. But, it was a fair depiction of why she was a poor choice. It was a well acted and fair depiction of why she was a bad choice. It was a well acted and well directed and fair depiction of why she was a bad choice. But in the end, it wasn't her fault. W guaranteed that there was going to be no beating Obama. But as far as political movies go, it's fair and well done... despite the miscast blame.