Directed by Chris Rock. With Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield, Dylan Baker. When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.
"Head of State" is an imperfect movie, but not a boring one and not lacking in intelligence. What it does wrong is hard to miss, but what it does right is hard to find: it makes an angry and fairly timely comic attack on an electoral system where candidates don't say what they really think but simply repeat safe centrist banalities.
Barack Obama is finally confirmed as the Democratic Party's candidate for President. This week, while the Democratic Party convention was underway on the other side of the planet, I re-watched the 2003 Chris Rock movie Head of State - and realised how prescient it has been - in some respects. For those who don't know…
Head of State (2003) Movie ** Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington...
Directed by Chris Rock. With Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield, Dylan Baker. When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.
"Head of State" is an imperfect movie, but not a boring one and not lacking in intelligence. What it does wrong is hard to miss, but what it does right is hard to find: it makes an angry and fairly timely comic attack on an electoral system where candidates don't say what they really think but simply repeat safe centrist banalities.
Barack Obama is finally confirmed as the Democratic Party's candidate for President. This week, while the Democratic Party convention was underway on the other side of the planet, I re-watched the 2003 Chris Rock movie Head of State - and realised how prescient it has been - in some respects. For those who don't know…
Head of State (2003) Movie ** Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington...
