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From:Kevin Kline , Sigourney Weaver , Frank Langella , Kevin Dunn , Ving Rhames , Warner Brothers , Ivan Reitman , Warner Home Video ,
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5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Can we get this guy for president?, 2006-08-16
I'm starting to think that the number one requirement for the job of "president" should be "acting experience." We seem to do rather well when we have an actor in office, whether in fiction or in real life. I also love Ben Kingsley's character in this film. Someone with his integrity in the White House . . . Perhaps that's too much to hope for. We can always dream, though, and "Dave" is quite a pleasant daydream, even if it could never happen in real life.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Great Intertainment!, 2006-07-10
Great Plot! A crooked president who only thinks of himself and his needs; a good hearted man named Dave who thinks about others, and the only thing they have in common is their outward appearance. Dave is called upon to sit in for the president and do his job for a while. Two of the presidents regular staff try to get Dave to do things that is contrary to Dave's character. So the story goes on from there. Who will win the battle of crooked verses good in the White House. This dvd picture was good and clear, the sound was great, and the case was in excellent condition. If you like warm hearted type movies, then this is the one for you. I know I have enjoyed it over and over. To me, Dave is about character, good or bad, and the choices we make in life that can affect others around us.
 A Welcome Diversion, 2006-06-20
It might be time for everyone involved in the bitter partisanship of contemporary American politics to take a few hours away from arguing and laugh a little bit. There is no reason two people of differing ideologies can't get together for an evening and enjoy a very astute, funny comedy as a way to break the monotony of anger and mudslinging pervading America's political debates.
Dave may just be the answer to all our problems.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Cathartic American (Hollywood) Dream, 2006-06-13
How do you solve a potentially explosive scandal, solve all the world's problems, and get rid of the greed and corruption in the White House? Well, you make an affable liberal actor take the President's place of course!
Kevin Kline plays Dave, an affable temp agency owner who on his off-time likes to do small event impersonations of the President. As for his luck, he strikes an uncanny resemblance, a la the Prince and the Pauper, and is found by the Secret Service to be an ideal candidate for a decoy body while the President is off doing... confidential things.
However, when the real President has a stroke, his advisors don't want to set off a national emergency... especially with a liberal vice-president around to think about. Thus they move Dave in a la The Hudsucker Proxy as the new President... but of course, Dave has a warm heart and an inspiration to try his hardest at everything he does, so... he goes at his job with the energy, charisma, and skill that everyone wants from the most powerful man in the world, even warming the angry scowl off of Susan Sarandon's face!
Of course like most cathartic entertainment like this, it's not so much about the actual presenting of ideas on how to solve all the problems (some hints on where to start are made), but more a vehicle for opening up the minds of the audience to the possibility of TRYING to make the world a better place. You can't get answers from it, but dreams, so dream hard. Don't worry, Ving Rhames will grow to like you.
The true entertainment from this comes from Kline. His acting is wonderfully physical and involved, and bleeds a sincerity to the common man, the salt of the Earth, that keeps the audience cheering for him the entire way.
--PolarisDiB
Wonderful--You'll watch it over and over, 2006-04-17
This is a great story, entertaining, fun, with laughter and pathos mixed in, much like life itself. You'll find yourself watching it over and over again; it is a "feel-good" movie that will leave you smiling. Kline and Weaver give outstanding performances.
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