TV: HBO’s Recount, Comes On Tonight, 9PM

I enjoy my share of polit­i­cal movies and will be watch­ing this one. HBO plans to present the fic­tional account of the 2000 Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion that pre­miers tonight on HBO at 9pm. Remem­ber those hang­ing chad’s? I know they (HBO) say they’ve done all the research, spo­ken to many sources close to these events but from what I’ve heard and read, the film doesn’t accu­rately depict the peo­ple or the events that sur­round this con­tentious elec­tion where Amer­i­cans did not know who the pres­i­dent was for one week. No mat­ter, it’s just a movie, right? Any­body watching?

For Fur­ther Reading

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Tagged as: HBO, Political movies