3/11/2024 0 Comments Swing vote 1999The unsubtle message, evidently, is that we don’t just discuss abortion in this country we wear it like a loud tie. Rather than be content to draft believable dialogue exchanges, Bass and Rusconi have decided to transform “ Swing Vote” into a series of heavy-handed sermons punctuated by maudlin musical interludes. Their teleplay is literate, sensitively wrought and painstakingly balanced the problem is that practically everything that exits someone’s lips sounds like a speech. But that’s nearly what scribes Ron Bass and Jean Rusconi wind up doing. When you have talent like Andy Garcia (in his first network made-for), James Whitmore, Robert Prosky, Harry Belafonte, Ray Walston, Kate Nelligan and Margaret Colin, you’ve got to really screw up the script to fall on your face. That alone is worthy of admiration.And so is the telepic itself, thanks to a stellar cast. In an era of lily-livered advertisers, V-chips and content paranoia, the risk inherent in running a film that courts this kind of controversy can’t be minimized.
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