It is important to director Levinson that the film both provides a message and gives a positive slant to the world he views. The filmmaker concludes,

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It is important to director Levinson that the
film both provides a message and gives a positive
slant to the world he views. The filmmaker
concludes, A lot of times when we make political
pieces, theres a tendency to be cynical. At the
heart and soul of this film, you have two people,
neither of whom could be corrupted. He liked the
idea that some man with integrity, some woman
with integrity will both step forward, and that
will be the beginning of change. I want to
celebrate that somewhere in human nature, virtue
rises up. The alternative is unimaginable.
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BARRY LEVINSON (Written and Directed by) has
crafted an enviable reputation in the film and
television industry as a writer-director/producer
who blends literate and intelligent visions into
films and television series. Among his numerous
awards and nominations, he is the winner of the
1988 for Best Director for Rain Man, a film that
won top honors, including Best Picture and Best
Actor. To date, Levinson has received a total of
six Academy nominations including Best Director
and Best Picture for Bugsy.
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An Academy Award-winning actor and a multiple
Grammy-winning performer unparalleled in the
scope of his imagination, ROBIN WILLIAMS (Tom
Dobbs) continues to add to his repertoire of
indelible characters. In 1998, Williams received
Academy and Screen Actors Guild awards for his
performance as Sean McGuire, the therapist who
counsels Matt Damons title charactera math
geniusin Gus Van Sants Good Will Hunting. The
Academy previously nominated Williams for Best
Actor in The Fisher King, Dead Poets Society and
Good Morning, Vietnam.
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Few actresses in the entertainment world today
have made as lasting an impression as LAURA
LINNEY (Eleanor Green) has on Hollywood. Linney
was last seen in The Squid and the Whale,
starring opposite Jeff Daniels. In addition to
Man of the Year, this fall she will be seen in
Driving Lessons, which was directed by Jeremy
Brock. In spring 2007, Linney will be seen in
Jindabyne, which was shot entirely on location in
the outback of Australia and The Nanny Diaries.
She has also completed filming on Billy Rays
Breach, opposite Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe
The Savages, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and on
The Hottest State, directed by Ethan Hawke, who
also stars in the film.
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CHRISTOPHER WALKEN (Jack Menken) won the 1978
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his
astonishing performance in Michael Ciminos The
Deer Hunter, a role that also earned him the New
York Film Critics Circle Award and a Golden Globe
nomination. Walken also received a 2002 Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and
won BAFTA and SAG awards for his role opposite
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in Steven
Spielbergs Catch Me If You Can.
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LEWIS BLACK (Eddie Langston) is at home on the
stage as an actor, playwright and stand-up
comedian. He has performed his caustic, cranky,
bile-spewing, dead-on social and political comedy
throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada
and the United States
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