• Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 08/01/2008
  • Running Time: 100 mins
  • Director: Joshua Michael Stern
  • Cast: Kevin Costner, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, Judge Reinhold, George Lopez, Willie Nelson, Mare Winningham
  • Producer: Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson
  • Writer: Joshua Michael Stern, Jason Richman
  • Distributor: Touchstone Pictures/Treehouse Films
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Box Office

  1. Quantum of Solace, 67.5 million, 67.5 million
  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 35.0 million, 116.9 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Role Models, 11.2 million, 37.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  8. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 5.7 million, 84.2 million
  9. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  10. Changeling, 4.3 million, 27.6 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Zack and Miri, 3.1 million, 26.5 million
  13. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  14. Soul Men, 2.4 million, 9.4 million
  15. The Secret Life of Bees, 2.3 million, 33.6 million
  16. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  17. Saw V, 1.8 million, 55.4 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 1.6 million, 90.9 million
  20. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Swing Vote

Swing Vote is about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it was. The clever premise, which would have seemed like science fiction no more than eight years ago, concerns a U.S. presidential election whose outcome hinges on a single misprocessed vote. And naturally, this being Hollywood, and director Joshua Michael Stern being an obvious student of Frank Capra, that vote belongs to the most average of average Joes—Ernest "Bud" Johnson (Kevin Costner), a recently laid-off factory worker in Texico, New Mexico. It's a novel idea for a movie: As Texico becomes the locus of a media frenzy, both major-party candidates (Kelsey Grammer and Dennis Hopper) are forced to abandon their market-tested platforms, their big-money backers, and their vested special interests in order to campaign for the favor of a single American voter. Swing Vote oscillates wildly between spot-on satire and boldfaced parody without ever quite striking a comfortable balance. So it's no surprise that, just as Bud asks his big question at a debate organized for his benefit—the one about why so many people in the supposedly richest country in the world can't afford to live here any more, which may be the question foremost in many Americans' minds right now—the syrupy music swells, the camera cranes up, and the screen fades to black. — Scott Foundas

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