Kevin Costner

The plot of Swing Vote, the new political satire, starring Kevin Costner and Kelsey Grammer, about a lazy dad from New Mexico whose unintentionally-cast ballot ends up being the presidential election’s deciding vote, was stolen, a former Bush aide is claiming.

The Associated Press is reporting that Bradley Blakeman, a political commentator and one-time deputy-assistant to president Bush, has filed a lawsuit claiming that, in 2006, he gave Mr. Grammer a copyrighted screenplay called Go November, and that Mr. Grammer had agreed not only to develop the project, but also to star in the film as an incumbent Republican president, similar to the role he plays in Swing Vote.  read more »

SWING VOTE
Running Time 120 minutes
Written By Jason Richman and Joshua Michael Stern
Directed By Joshua Michael Stern
Starring Kevin Costner, Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, Dennis Hopper, Kelsey Grammer, Madeline Carroll

Say about it what you will, but in an election year, you can’t accuse Kevin Costner’s political satire Swing Vote of failing to keep up with current events. With an eye on the box office coffers and a finger on the nation’s nervous pulse, this romp with a conscience, directed by Joshua Michael Stern, who co-wrote the edgy screenplay (with Jason Richman), features the new scruffy, self-deprecating and slightly graying Mr.  read more »

Chris Matthews cannot be stopped. A month after singing his 'aria' in The New York Times Magazine and almost announcing his intention to run for office on The Colbert Report, the host of MSNBC's Hardball is now conquering Hollywood.

Matthews appears as himself in the trailer for Swing Vote, a film that appears to be a gentle political comedy starring a leathery Kevin Costner as a man whose vote—his solitary vote—will decide the presidential election.  read more »

As a director, Kevin Costner might have saved this surreal story of a middle-aged serial killer.  read more »