Dave

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Summary: This film gets you to care about the characters.
Review: A good movie gets you to care about the characters and what happens to them. DAVE succeeds on many levels here, it's a mostly up-beat look at the White House and how the people who work there are human also, with strengths and weaknesses that everyone can relate with. The main characters of the film that I liked, are Dave and Ellen (played by Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver) how they meet and eventually fall in love with each other makes this a funny/romantic movie, and a good romance always make a film interesting.Written by Gary Ross. Produced by Lauren Shuler-Donner. Directed by Ivan Reitman. Music by James Newton Howard.

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Summary: Enjoyable Presidential Comedy
Review: I liked DAVE. The first time I saw it, I thought it was a funny, well-written comedy. Re-watching it more often, I've come to appreciate that Kevin Kline as both the ill President and the hapless impostor gives off a great performance in this film - he's utterly watchable and has commendale skill at getting the laughs in the right places.

Sigourney Weaver is similarly fantastic as the strong and independent First Lady who finds herself becoming attracted to the Presidential impostor. Fill the rest of the cast with great performances from some well-known character actors and you have DAVE.

The plot may strike soom as bizarre or impossible: but BLAZING SADDLES, GREMLINS and many other comedy classics had crazy plots. Put yourself in the mood for having a great time and enjoy the jokes that come frequently in this film.

I give DAVE four stars because there are a few jokes that fall flat and it does seem slightly overlong. However, the great cast compensate for these flaws to produce a film that you'll probably want to watch again.

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Summary: Light romantic comedy.
Review: President Bill Mitchell is not exactly an ideal President. He looks after those who helped get him into office than the people and he is a philanderer. One of the ways that he keeps his amorous play a secret is to hire a lookalike to impersonate him. Now the man whom they have hired is Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline), a goodhearted man who likes to help people find jobs. After making his little exit, the real President suffers a stroke and is completely incapacitated. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House. Unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady.

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Summary: Heartwarming and Funny
Review: Kevin Kline stars as Dave Kovic, an owner of a temporary employment agency. He is hired to serve as a double for the President of the United States. However, things don't turn out as planned and Dave finds himself continuing his charade.

The real President has suffered a stroke while making love to his secretary and Dave continues his impersonation. The President's advisors don't want to inform Vice President Nance, played by Ben Kingsley, because Chief Of Staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) is jealous of him. Bob has his sights set on the Presidency, so he has sent the Vice President away on an African goodwill tour. While the V.P. is gone, Bob begins digging up dirt about him.

Meanwhile, Dave continues to learn more about the Presidency, and he's taking over some of the Presidential tasks. Eventually, he meets First Lady Helen Mitchell, played by Sigourney Weaver. The real President and First Lady have a very rocky relationship and they rarely see each other, but Dave is attracted to he immediately.

Soon, Dave is making visits to factories and sitting in on Cabinet meetings, all the while charming everyone and watching the approval ratings soar. While Dave is enjoying his success, Bob is seething. He's angry that Dave has become so popular, and he fears losing his chance at the Presidency. Also, Dave is beginning to see the schemer that Bob really is, and he asks for Bob's resignation. This leads to Bob blowing the lid off a White House scandal involving the President and Vice President. But due to some quick thinking by Dave, he manages to clear the Vice President and inform Congress that Bob was really behind the scandal.

While addressing Congress, Dave fakes a reoccurance of the stroke that plagued the real President, paving the way for Vice President Nance to take over as President. Dave then goes back to work at his Temp agency, having decided to run for city council, and he gets a little help from the former First Lady as well.

I enjoyed this movie very much. The acting is excellecnt. Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Sigourney Weaver, and Ben Kingsley give top notch performances. This is a funny and uplifting movie and shows that the little guy can enjoy the limelight once in a while.

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Summary: A movie that leaves you on top of the world
Review: The acting was excellent. Sigourney Weaver lights up the screen as she does in every movie, that I have seen. Kevin Kline plays the perfect role of an optimistic owner of a employment agency and the greedy President. Frank Langella is splendid as well in this great romance/comedy. Unlike many romances with guy meets girl, they fall in love, ectera, DAVE has a plot. The music gave glory to movie and gave a special feeling. It is a movie that makes smile and laugh. I felt like a million bucks after seeing it. DAVE is my favorite movie, no questions asked. I watch it every time it comes on t.v. and soon try to buy it. DAVE is a clean movie, that has several important messages.

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Summary: A fun Political Drama/Comedy!
Review: DAVE is a great movie. It's fun to watch and is family friendly. At the same time, though, it has plenty of political jargon and Oval Office scenes to keep the political drama lover happy. DAVE follows a man who could pass as a twin of the President. He is recruited as a double for the Prez. for public appearances, but quite unexpectedly, gets a big promotion! Definately see this one.

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Summary: comedy
Review: A political feel-good comedy about a presidential lookalike who replaces him after a stroke and has to deal with corrupt politicians.
Going back to old political movies like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "The Great McGinty", the idea of staging a naive man dealing with crooked polititians has been widely used in the past. Also the idea of a common man impersonating a political leader has been used in the past by Kurosawa in "Kagemusha" with the substantial difference that the story is set in medioeval Japan, making the story much more believable, and the theme of impersonation is dealt with in a less superficial way.
The fact that "Dave" is set in the United States in the end of the twentieth century makes the story unrealistic and brings it to the level of a kids' movie. No one can tell that Dave is an impostor, not even the First Lady, ...
The characters seem to be one-dimensional. Dave is utterly good-hearted, naive and his patriotism seems at times exaggerated, similar to James Stewart's character in "Mr Smith Goes to Washington". The Chief of Staff doesn't have the slightest scruple. The president is ruthless, crooked and mistreats his ministers. The only active character is Alan Reed, who in the end is conquered by Dave's good attitude.
The movie, however, has also dramatic elements, smart dialogue and humorous gags, making it appealing to a wider audience.

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Summary: Recommended For Almost Anyone
Review: If you want a fast laugh, a feel-good movie, and a happy ending (of sorts), this is the movie that you should see. Pretty clean except for one slight sex scene.

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Summary: excellent rainy day movie
Review: I agree with the person who said we need a "Dave" in our current White House. This is definitely a movie you can watch again and again.

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Summary: Dave: Jimmy Stewart Returns as Kevin Kline
Review: Hollywood has long bashed politicians in its films. Usually, these greasy-palmed lechs are seen as no more than variations of Willy Stark from ALL THE KING'S MEN. But there have been a few notable exceptions: MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, and now director Ivan Reitman presents Kevin Kline as the sainted president-imposter of DAVE. The plot is nonsense, of course. Kline is a businessman who bears a stunning resemblance to the real president who unexpectedly suffers a stroke. Frank Langella, who also bears an equally stunning resemblance in both looks and attitude to former Nixon henchman Bob Haldeman, recruits Kline to stand in for the president. Kline's imposture is so convincing that everyone, including the president's wife (Sigourney Weaver), is fooled. Langella sees Kline only as a buffoon, easily manipulated until he is ready to annoint himself as the new president.

The joy of DAVE is watching an updated version of the fish out of water routine. Kline is genuinely funny as he struggles to master the protocol needed to run the free world. What gives DAVE a touching resonance is the subtle transformation of Kline as the admitted fish out of water to a good-hearted human being who slowly realizes that the power of the presidency can do far more for America than merely enrich the one who sits in the Oval Office. Even the burgeoning romance between Kline as the fake president and Weaver who thinks him the real thing is touching. Director Reitman diluted the focus of interest with a deluge of cameos of famous politicians and Hollywood stars, all of whom do little more than add one moment of cheap laughs in a movie that tries hard for serious laughs about serious issues that range from who we are to who we might be. It is the totality of questions about the need to establish our moral center in our rightful identity that makes DAVE such a refreshing breath of air after the thundering blasphemies of that self-appointed crude politico Willy Stark.