Dave
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Short description
Dave Kovic runs an employment agency and happens to look exactly like President Bill Mitchell. When the president is incapacitated during a private encounter, his chief of staff and press secretary arrange for Dave to keep up the public appearances, assuming he will be easy to control. Dave instead takes the role seriously, while the First Lady, kept in the dark about her husband's condition, notices how differently he behaves.
Ivan Reitman directed the comedy, his eighth feature in a run that followed Kindergarten Cop and preceded Junior. Gary Ross wrote the screenplay, and Lauren Shuler Donner and Reitman produced it for Warner Bros. Pictures. Kevin Kline plays both the ordinary man and the president, with Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Mitchell, Frank Langella as chief of staff Bob Alexander, Kevin Dunn as Alan Reed, Ving Rhames as a Secret Service agent and Ben Kingsley as Vice-President Nance.
Released in May 1993, the film runs 110 minutes and cost about 28 million dollars, earning roughly 92 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 6.9 rating from over 56,000 votes, and on TMDB a 6.6 from a smaller number of votes, while the critics' score stands at 7.6 from 62 reviews, higher than either audience figure.
What's left behind the scenes
- Many Hollywood celebrities, politicians, congressmen, and leading political commentators appear in the film as themselves.
- Kevin Kline landed the lead role in the film after Warren Beatty and Kevin Costner turned down the offer.
- The film's plot is largely fictional, however, there was a case in US history where, as a result of a stroke, President Woodrow Wilson lost his capacity, and his administration urgently organized a cover-up operation and allowed a person who had not been elected and was not even a politician to run the country. In the autumn of 1919, approximately two years into his second term (1916-1924), the President suffered a stroke and was left half-paralyzed, partially blind, and mentally impaired (to what extent – remained a closely guarded secret even a century later). Instead of allowing Wilson to simply resign and hand over power to US Vice President Thomas R. Marshall (1854-1925), the seriousness of what had happened and Wilson’s condition were decided to be kept secret, and the President’s second wife, Edith Wilson (1872-1961), began to run the executive branch of government.
- According to screenwriter Gary Ross, he didn't like the ending of an early draft of the screenplay he had written. Ross was under pressure to deliver the script, and his financial situation was dire, but he sat down and reworked it, and managed to resolve his financial issues with the bank.
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