Synopsis
Grant Cogswell is a short-tempered, unemployed music critic - an oddball outsider with a predilection for wearing polar bear suits, and a deep love for Seattle. Cogswell thinks he can harness the power of the people to improve his city. And he's right. Almost. It's 2001 -- before Twitter, before the flash mob, before Obama, and Cogswell decides he must do the impossible: run against an incumbent city council member who's already raised a huge campaign war chest and sewn up all the city's biggest political endorsements. Grant dreams of an elegant monorail gliding silently above the city's wet streets, and he is apoplectic with rage that McIver's alternate mass transit proposal is a costly idea that would destroy the city's lower class neighborhoods. Grant has a snowball's chance in hell of winning his campaign until he lures recently fired alternative-weekly reporter Phil Campbell to run his campaign. Phil may be a campaign neophyte, but he has the tact that Grant lacks, and frankly he can't think ofanything better to do with his time. Things start to look really bad until Grant attracts an army of wild-eyed young volunteers to back his unlikely crusade, and the impossible begins to happen.
Metrics
| Opening Weekend: | $6,497 (100.0% of total gross) |
| Legs: | 1.00 (domestic box office/biggest weekend) |
| Domestic Share: | 100.0% (domestic box office/worldwide) |
| Theater counts: | 1 opening theaters/1 max. theaters, 1.0 weeks average run per theater |
| Infl. Adj. Dom. BO | $8,796 |
Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists
| Record | Rank | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 17,301-17,400) | 17,358 | $6,497 |
| All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 35,701-35,800) | 35,708 | $6,497 |
| All Time Domestic Highest Grossing Limited Release Movies (Rank 8,401-8,500) | 8,414 | $6,497 |
| All Time Domestic Box Office for Comedy Movies (Rank 2,801-2,900) | 2,819 | $6,497 |
| All Time Worldwide Box Office for Comedy Movies (Rank 5,901-6,000) | 5,904 | $6,497 |
| All Time Domestic Box Office for R Movies (Rank 5,501-5,600) | 5,571 | $6,497 |
| All Time Worldwide Box Office for R Movies (Rank 6,301-6,400) | 6,360 | $6,497 |
See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.
Movie Details
| Domestic Releases: | June 22nd, 2012 (Limited) by Samuel Goldwyn Films |
| MPAA Rating: | R for pervasive language and brief drug use. (Rating bulletin 2224, 5/23/2012) |
| Running Time: | 100 minutes |
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| Keywords: | Political, Fired, Inspired by a True Story, 9/11, Terrorism |
| Source: | Based on Factual Book/Article |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Samuel Goldwyn Films, MRB Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |