The real question that this film asks is: where does Rob Lowe really belong? On the big screen or the little screen? And while I was watching this film I couldn't help but think that I was watching a little screen star trying to act on the big screen. And he simply doesn't quite make it. Oh, it's not that he's a bad actor. In fact, he's pretty decent. But I felt more interested in him as a television star (such as "Brothers & Sisters"), than in having to pay 8 bucks to watch him on the big screen (although apparently this film never made it to many theaters).
Carrie-Anne Moss (as a doctor running for governor), Jamie Chung (as Lowe's assistant), Richard Schiff (as a slightly less than respectable assistant), and Julie Bowen (as a reporter) all do fine...although none turn in performances that have you aching to see them again on the big screen. Eric McCormack, perhaps, was best here, as a Kentucky governor running for re-election.
The story was decent -- Lowe runs a political service mostly for politicians in trouble...and clearly a Democrat. He begins to have some pangs of conscience as he realizes his job has become too much about winning, and not enough about what is actually right. There's a little too many scenes of Lowe and his assistant driving in a car...but I guess that makes a cheap set.
There's not much to complain about here, or to applaud. It just felt better if you took if for...well, let's say a cable t.v. movie, rather than a big screen flick. Julie Bowen as Peaches O'Dell
Carrie-Anne Moss (as a doctor running for governor), Jamie Chung (as Lowe's assistant), Richard Schiff (as a slightly less than respectable assistant), and Julie Bowen (as a reporter) all do fine...although none turn in performances that have you aching to see them again on the big screen. Eric McCormack, perhaps, was best here, as a Kentucky governor running for re-election.
The story was decent -- Lowe runs a political service mostly for politicians in trouble...and clearly a Democrat. He begins to have some pangs of conscience as he realizes his job has become too much about winning, and not enough about what is actually right. There's a little too many scenes of Lowe and his assistant driving in a car...but I guess that makes a cheap set.
There's not much to complain about here, or to applaud. It just felt better if you took if for...well, let's say a cable t.v. movie, rather than a big screen flick. Julie Bowen as Peaches O'Dell