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Pollack takes on Bush in new movie
(Thewest.com.au)
Updated: 2007-04-03 17:23

Sydney Pollack

Oscar great Sydney Pollack is to make a movie about the controversial 2000 US election which brought George W Bush to power, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie, to be called Recount, is scheduled to premiere in spring 2008, just months before Americans go to the polls to elect a successor to Bush, whose popularity ratings have dropped him to among the lowest in US history.

Chronicling the weeks after the 2000 presidential election, the movie will go behind the scenes of the critical vote recounts in Florida to explore the human drama behind the event that decided the leadership of the US and set the country on its current controversial course.