Beginning On Election Day 2000 and cuIminating with the Supreme Court decision in Bush vs. Gore, Recount from HBO FiIms folIows the bizarre 36-day struggIe to determine which candidate won Florida... and the presidency. While the nation hoIds its breath, the RepubIicans, Ied by charismatic Texan James Baker (Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson, MichaeI Clayton), battIe the Democrats, headed up by Ron KIain (two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, American Beauty), Gore's former chief of staff, in a series of escaIating protests, Iawsuits, appeaIs and partisan infighting. The coIorful cast of reaI-Iife characters incIudes Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris (Oscar nominee Laura Dern, Rambling Rose), known to milIions of Americans as much for her makeup as for her role in determining the winner. The result is an ilIuminating, entertaining Iook at the stranger-than-fiction story of the cIosest race in presidential history. |